Dina’s Braids

Shoshana Shababo

1940

Dina has reached the age of seventeen, but her mind and manners are far beyond those years. She is comely and demure and full of charm. Two modest eyes and two wild braids. Why wild? Because they have escaped the usual boundaries and they are long, thick, snakelike. One day, when Dina grew weary of her braids she made her way to Ḥakham Makhlouf…

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Shoshana Shababo

1910–1992

Shoshana Shababo was born in Zikhron Ya‘akov, the daughter of a teacher at the Alliance school in Safed. She studied at the Levinsky College in Tel Aviv, and at age twenty-two published a controversial two-volume novel, Maryah, depicting the lives of nuns and of an Arab family. Shababo was one of the first Sephardi women to publish novels in pre-state Israel; her short stories also appeared in numerous literary journals. After her marriage, she ceased her literary career.

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