The Battle of the Ink-Drawn Flag

Natan Shaḥam

1948

He had traveled to Germany once, where he visited a displaced-persons camp. He was to meet Party members in one of the small Bavarian towns, and when he arrived at the “camp,” it turned out to be a four-story barracks, bulky and insufferably filthy. Several families crowded into one room under conditions that epitomized all that is iniquitous and…

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Creator Bio

Natan Shaḥam

1925–2018

Novelist and playwright Natan Shaḥam was born in Tel Aviv, the son of author Eliezer Steinman. Shaḥam served in the Palmach in Israel’s War of Independence. He then worked abroad as Israel’s cultural attaché in New York and served as editor in chief at the Sifriat Po‘alim Publishing House. His works deal with the issues of assimilation into Israeli culture and threats of war. A musician, Shaḥam received international fame with his Rosendorf Quartet, a five-part novel encapsulating the experiences of immigrants from Germany. In 2012, Shaḥam was awarded the Israel Prize for Literature.

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