Oz is best known for “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” a memoir of his hardscrabble youth in a materially impoverished Jerusalem, where he was born May 4, 1939, just as the British Mandate was winding down and the incipient state of Israel was in its first throes. The book was brought to the screen in 2015 in Natalie Portman’s debut as a director.
Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times