Amos Oz accused of 'sadistic abuse' by daughter in new memoir

Galia Oz claims late author - hailed as Israel's greatest - beat and humiliated her in childhood, but siblings say they remember him differently

The daughter of the late Israeli author Amos Oz has alleged that her father subjected her to a routine of sadistic abuse" in a new memoir, claims that have been challenged by his family.

Galia Oz, a children's author, published her autobiography, Something Disguised as Love, in Hebrew on Sunday. In my childhood, my father beat me, swore and humiliated me," she writes, in a translation published by the newspaper Haaretz. The violence was creative: He dragged me from inside the house and threw me outside. He called me trash. Not a passing loss of control and not a slap in the face here or there, but a routine of sadistic abuse. My crime was me myself, so the punishment had no end. He had a need to make sure I would break."