One Moment

Natan Zach

1960

One moment of silence, please. If you please. I
would like to say something. He walked
right past me. I could have touched the hem
of his mantle. I did not touch it. Who could have
known what I did not know.
The sand clung to his garments. Twigs
were entangled in his beard. Apparently he’d
spent the night in a haystack. Who could have
known that…
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Creator Bio

Natan Zach

1936–2020
Natan Zach (born Harry Seitelbach) was a poet, writer, editor, translator, and literary scholar. As a child, he moved to Palestine from Germany, settling in Haifa. Zach enlisted in the Israeli army at the age of seventeen and fought in Israel’s War of Independence in 1948. Zach was a leading figure in the Israeli literary scene in the first decades of the country’s independence and had a profound impact on Israeli poetry. His Kol he-ḥalav ve-ha-devash (All the Milk and Honey, 1966) is considered a modern classic. He also wrote children’s books and nonfiction. Zach was awarded the Israel Prize in 1995.

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