Creator Bio
Benjamin Tammuz
1919–1989
Israeli novelist, journalist, painter, and sculptor Benjamin Tammuz was born in Russia and immigrated to Palestine in 1924. He studied law and economics in Tel Aviv and then art history at the Sorbonne. Tammuz designed the Tel Aviv monument to fallen Israeli pilots. He was literary editor of the daily Haaretz as well as Israel’s cultural attaché in London between 1971 and 1975. He was a writer-in-residence at Oxford University from 1979 to 1984.
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Sands of Gold
It was noon and a small boy lay on the couch in the room. The woolly coverlet prickled his back, making him toss about uncomfortably. His eyes roved across the ceiling and down the blank walls to the…