Amos Oz’s daughter reveals “Dad hit me, called me filth”

Galia Oz (Rainbow Screenshot 12)

Amos Oz’s daughter, Galia, revealed last night (Saturday) in a comprehensive interview about the relationship between her and her father – one of the well-known and revered writers in Israeli society and the world: “physical and mental abuse that includes cursing and beating.”

In an interview with the news on the weekend with Dana Weiss, Galia said that despite the great storm surrounding the book, she felt that “it’s harder to be silent. I was waiting for the book to come out.”

In her autobiographical book “A thing disguised as love”, already on the first page Oz reveals her father’s harsh behavior towards her: “As a child my father beat me cursed and humiliated, the violence was creative, he dragged me out of the house and dumped me, called me filth. “But a routine of sadistic abuse.” According to Oz, her father acted in this way as “a compulsive need to constantly control, humiliate, diminish value, belittle friends, what you love, damage body image.”

Asked by Weiss why she had been waiting all these years, her mother Oz said that “in 2021 an abuse victim is no longer asked why you kept quiet, you talk when you can. In his life he still scared me,” and about the relationship with her parents she said it was “like talking.”

As you may recall, the members of the Oz family shrugged off Oz’s words: “We, Nili, Fanya and Daniel, knew another father. A warm, cordial, attentive father who loved his family with a soul full of concern, devotion and sacrifice. Most of the accusations that Galia now throws at him completely contradict “The strong memory that has been imprinted on us throughout our lives. Galia decided to sever all contact with us about seven years ago.”

The family members added: “The allegations she made then towards all of us caught us by surprise. Although he did not recognize himself in her accusations, Dad tried and hoped until his last day to talk to her and understand her, even about the things that seemed to him and us contrary to reality. Galia’s pain is probably real And heartbreaking, but we remember differently.

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