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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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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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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…
Contributor:
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
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Weary from the journey, confused by what she was seeing, shaken by the vicissitudes of the day, and straining to repress her rage, which was getting away from her in spite of herself—and always…
Contributor:
Savyon Liebrecht
Places:
Bnei Brak, Israel
Date:
1986
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When I told Glikeria the story of Angus, she told me that the story of Angus falling in love with Kerr is quite a story; that is: an all inclusive, conclusive, and exhaustive story about falling in…
Contributor:
Ruth Almog
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2000
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My parents had been married for five years when I was born, the second child after my sister, and, as far back as I can remember, I never heard them quarreling. It is possible that they…
Contributor:
Sasson Somekh
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2003
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It was an afternoon in the middle of April when the accident occurred. The year was a leap year, rainy and warm, and on that summery spring day in the commune he had already been given the job of…
Contributor:
Yosef Haim Brenner
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1920
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Dina has reached the age of seventeen, but her mind and manners are far beyond those years. She is comely and demure and full of charm. Two modest eyes and two wild braids. Why wild? Because they have…
Contributor:
Shoshana Shababo
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1940
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Along the nocturnal road were trees, nodding heads like people. The light of the speeding bus falls on them, withdraws from them. And the vapour-veiled moon crescent is getting blurred. But why is her…
Contributor:
Amalia Kahana-Carmon
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1984