About: Yehoshua Bar-Yosef

Yehoshua Bar-Yosef (Hebrew: יהושע בר-יוסף, b. 29 May 1912 d. 7 October 1992) was an Israeli writer. Bar-Yosef was born in Safed, Ottoman Empire and was raised in a Haredi Jewish family. He later left Orthodox Judaism, and became a writer. He worked first as a newspaper editor, and then as a freelance journalist. His work includes novels, novellas, short stories, plays and historical epics about Safed. He received numerous literary awards, including the Bialik Prize in 1984.