Professor of literature and a public intellectual.
Born November 1st, 1935 in Jerusalem. [ref]
Died November 25th, 2003 at 68 years old in New York City (leukemia). [ref]
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde