A Common Grave

Yehudit Hendel was born in Warsaw into a rabbinic family. She moved to Palestine in 1930, eventually settling in Haifa, and published her first stories at age seventeen. As a novelist and short-story writer, Hendel focused on the plight of immigrants, revealing the social inequalities within different ethnic groups in Israeli society; she also stressed issues relevant to women. Some of her works were turned into screenplays, and she received the Bialik Prize for Literature in 1997 and the Israel Prize in 2003.