The wife of the late writer Amos Oz, Nili Oz, today (Sunday) addressed through her daughter, Prof. Fania Oz-Salzberger, the claim of her second daughter, the writer Galia Oz, that she was beaten by her husband.
“Despite the terrible pain it causes me, I choose not to comment publicly on Galia’s remarks, but only on a matter that concerns me most directly: I have never been a battered woman. Amos has never been beaten,” Oz-Salzberger wrote on behalf of her mother on her Twitter account. .
Oz added in the name of horror: “We lived together for almost 60 years with great love, and we tried our best to give love to all our children and grandchildren.”
My mother, Nili Oz:
‘Despite the terrible pain it causes me, I choose not to comment publicly on the words of my daughter Galia, but only on a matter that concerns me most directly: I have never been a battered woman. Amos never had a hit. We have lived together for almost 60 years with great love, and we have tried our best to give love to all our children and grandchildren. “– Fania Oz-Salzberger @faniaoz February 28, 2021
Galia Oz, the daughter of someone who is considered by many to be one of the greatest writers in Israel, last week published a new autobiographical book (“A thing disguised as love”) in which she tells about her relationship with her father. In this context, Oz revealed, among other things, that her father was violent towards her during her childhood.
“When I was a child, my father beat me, cursed and humiliated me,” Oz writes, adding: “The violence was creative: he dragged me out of the house and threw me on the doorstep outside. He called me filthy. “My crime was myself, so the punishment had no end. He needed to make sure I broke,” she wrote.