Evening Descends

Oded Avisar

1960

Again the herd throngs the village gateways
and dust rises up from the dirt roads.
And farther still a pair of clappers
keep pace with the lengthening shadows.
Evening descends, evening descends.
Again the wind rustles among the garden fences
and up in the pine tree doves already are nodding off.
And along the shoulder of the distant hills
the…
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Creator Bio

Oded Avisar

1918–1976

Born in Hebron, Oded Avisar was committed to documenting the history of Jewish life there. In 1958, while the city was under Jordanian rule, he began editing the Sefer Ḥevron, a memorial book for the Jewish community of Hebron modeled after those of Jewish communities destroyed by the Holocaust. By 1970, when the book was published, Hebron was under Israeli rule. Avisar also wrote several popular folksongs on pastoral themes.

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