Israeli author Amos Oz at Beit Avi Chai in Jerusalem. (Courtesy)
A daughter of the late, highly acclaimed Israeli author Amos Oz says her father “serially abused” her, physically and mentally, until his death in 2018.
Galia Oz details her father’s alleged abuses in a new autobiography, “Something Disguised as Love,” which has shaken Israel’s image of the novelist, considered among the country’s greatest writers and a perennial Nobel prize favorite. Oz died of cancer in 2018.
“During my childhood, my father beat, cursed and humiliated me,” she wrote.
“The abuse was creative: He would drag me around the house and throw me onto the stoop outside. He would call me garbage. He didn’t lose his cool and this wasn’t an occasional slap on the face but a routine of serial abuse,” she said.