The Glass Bell

Amalia Kahana-Carmon

1966

Opposite the windowsill is a shuttered curtain and a wasteland of chimneys. The street is being drained of life. A double-decker bus with gleaming windows of light passes by the corner. A woman pushes a babyless baby carriage. [ . . . ]

In the park, back-to-back with my bench, sat two teenage girls. Perhaps two English girls from the nearby workers’…

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Amalia Kahana-Carmon

1926–2019

Fiction writer and essayist Amalia Kahana-Carmon was born at Kibbutz ‘Ein Ḥarod and raised in Tel Aviv. In the 1940s, she was a member of the underground military Haganah and later joined the fighting branch, the Palmach, taking part in the 1948 war as a radio operator. Her first book, Bi-khfifah aḥat (Under One Roof), was published in 1966 to great acclaim. Her lyrical, allusive style and her subtle rendering of female consciousness made her a dominant figure in Israeli women’s writing. She received the Israel Prize for Literature in 2000.

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