Tirtsa Atar was a poet, playwright, actor, and translator. The daughter of poet Natan Alterman and actress Rachel Marcus, Atar was born in Tel Aviv. She wrote five books of poetry, plays, and works for children, and also acted on the Israeli stage and translated dozens of plays into Hebrew, including Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1976). In 1973, Atar was awarded the Zeev Award for children’s and young adults’ literature.
Uptown, at 9th Avenue and 155th St., stands the famous field—the Polo Grounds. Every afternoon, 20,000–35,000 people gather there. The entrance fee is from $0.50–1.50. Thousands of poor boys and older…
Meylekh Snitkever takes the heavy shears and looks at them silently. He holds them in both hands as if to weigh them. Then he shifts his stare to me, the muscles moving in his jaws, which are covered…
Once upon a time in a small village a poor unfortunate man lived with his mother, his wife, and his six children in a little one-room hut. Because they were so crowded, the man and his wife often…