A Common Grave

Yehudit Hendel

1950

To the sacred memory of dear Shmulik and his comrades who fell in the battle to liberate Yeḥi‘am

He rose from the bed shading his eyes with his hands as if it was light although it was still dark. His fingers were as dry as dry twigs and the blue of the pre-dawn shrivelled them even more. He put on his shoes and dressed in the darkness and heard the…

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Yehudit Hendel

1926–2014

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.

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