Yehoshua Bar-Yosef

Who is Yehoshua Bar-Yosef?

Not to be confused with Jesus of Nazareth.

Yehoshua Bar-Yosef was an Israeli writer.

Bar-Yosef was born in Safed, Israel 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.