David Grossman — author with roots in the Russian Empire
David Grossman (born 25 January 1954, Jerusalem) is an Israeli author whose novels include See Under: Love (1986), To the End of the Land (2008) and A Horse Walks into a Bar (2014). His son Uri was killed in the 2006 Lebanon War. He received the Man Booker International Prize in 2017, shared with translator Jessica Cohen, the Israel Prize for Literature in 2018 and the Erasmus Prize in 2022.
Tracing the roots — Dynów (Austrian Galicia)
Grossman was born in Jerusalem. His father, Yitzhak, came from Dynów, a town in Austrian Galicia; his mother, Michaella, was born in Mandatory Palestine. No ancestor born or living in the Russian Empire has been documented.
His father, Yitzhak, emigrated from Dynów with his widowed mother at the age of nine; his mother, Michaella, was born in Mandatory Palestine.
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Dynów (Austrian Galicia). At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.
A career defined by ambition
"Writing is the only way I know to touch the things I am most afraid of."