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Like the golden bangles on the arms of a Bedouin woman, the hills of Gilboa bind their bracelets about the valley of Jezreel in the golden hours of late Adar evenings. Then do the women go down to…
Contributor:
Abraham Shlonsky
Places:
Kibbutz Ein Harod, Mandate Palestine
(‘En H̱arod - Meuhad, Israel)
Date:
1921
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Upon your nakedness a white day celebrates,
You who are [so] poor and so rich,
A wall of mountains has frozen,
Transparent like a deceptive vision,
Attached to the horizon.
Noon. The vastnesses of…
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Esther Raab
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1923
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Opposite the windowsill is a shuttered curtain and a wasteland of chimneys. The street is being drained of life. A double-decker bus with gleaming windows of light passes by the corner. A woman pushes…
Contributor:
Amalia Kahana-Carmon
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1966
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Why should I take it to heart
I have new things on my mind,
Imagination that helps me to forget at times.
Why should I take it to heart
I have so much before that to love,
I always have friends…
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Arik Einstein, Shalom Hanoch
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1970
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Translated by Miriam Shlesinger.
Contributor:
Etgar Keret
Places:
Gainesville, United States of America
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
2004
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It was most curious, Hemdat’s having agreed to give Yael Hayyut literature lessons. Yet since it struck him as being but one more insoluble psychological riddle, he took the moralist’s advice and…
Contributor:
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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(Israel, Israel)
Date:
1911
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My palms are raised toward you,
To the little light
Which I still have in your eyes,
And you—sharpen your teeth
For the softness of my yellow flesh;
And were this flesh to be thrown upon the field
An…
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Esther Raab
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1926
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Early in the morning he went out to carry out the assignment which he had been given. Jerusalem seemed to be tired and her hair was unkempt. The first revellers had reached the streets. One window was…
Contributor:
Yehuda Amichai
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1961
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I do not want to see you in my dreams
each night. I do not want to tremble when I hear
a footstep at my door. I do not want
to think of you each hour of every day.
I do not want to see
in the…
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Leah Goldberg
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1952
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In winter, the rain beat down on the roof.
She said white was her favorite shade.
At hand he then gave her, his heart filled with joy,
A bunch of daffodils, fragrant and moist.
She laughed: “My dear…
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Uri Assaf
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1963