So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

Yehoshua (Hebrew: א. Since 1972 he has taught Comparative and Hebrew Literature at the University of Haifa where he holds the rank of Full Professor. San Diego Harvest/HBJ 1997.

Yehoshua (Hebrew: א. יהושע‎ born December 19 1936) is an Israeli novelist essayist and playwright publiA. B. Yehoshuad as A. ב.