Jezebel

Shulamit Kalugai

1941

The days of my life pass by, dissolve like mist.
I don’t know the what and when; I don’t know the who.
Baal and Astarte have grown alien to me.
My kingdom and my foes grow alien, too.
I don’t expect the arrival of anyone.
For who would come to me in my time of drouth?
No one is coming here. Not even a crow
from the river Krit with a greeting in…
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Shulamit Kalugai

1891–1972

Israeli author Shulamit Kalugai was born in Poltava, Ukraine, and studied at the Sorbonne and at the University of Pittsburgh. She moved to Israel in 1910 and taught at the Hebrew Gymnasia in Jerusalem, and at the Reali School in Haifa. Kalugai wrote children’s literature and short stories. She was the sister of Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, the second president of Israel.

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