All Those Who Love You

Avot Yeshurun

1974

I left his house
Of my own volition.
In order to build him a house
Of my own volition.
But it seems my father
Remained solitary
And neglected
Not of his own volition.
I was moving towards my father.
I was running from my father.
The whole two zlotys he sent me.
Me just a dollar to him.
All those who loved you. It was your obligation
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Creator Bio

Avot Yeshurun

1903–1992
The poet Avot Yeshurun was born Yeḥiel Perlmutter in Ukraine and immigrated to Palestine in 1925. He joined the Jewish militia, the Haganah, in 1929 and later fought in Israel’s War of Independence in 1948. Known for a literary style that combined Arabic and Yiddish idioms, Yeshurun was one of the first Israeli writers to grapple with the Palestinian refugee problem.

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