Fathers and Brothers: A Memoir

Shimon Sandbank

2004

The parting was not long in coming. My father died two months before I turned six.

To this day, I go to him at difficult times. Mostly to complain that he abandoned me. The handful of memories that he left me—snatched camera flashes—don’t hint at any lost paradise. On the contrary, these two or three memories are not comforting memories; they are…

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Shimon Sandbank

b. 1933

Born in Tel Aviv, Shimon Sandbank is a literary critic, novelist, and translator. He earned his doctorate from the Hebrew University in 1965, and now is a professor emeritus of comparative literature at the Hebrew University. Sandbank received the Israel Prize for Literary Translation in 1996, and has written numerous studies of writers, among them Rilke, Kafka, and Celan.

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