Remove Your Shoes

Gershom Shofman

1949

Remove your shoes from your feet and, barefoot, feel the earth!

Whatever was in the past and be what may now—today the land is ours, the heavens are ours, and the sea is our sea.

Let us go out to the field and thirstily drink in the whiteness of the daisies on the lawn, the gold of the groundsel, the tremor of the clover.

Look at the children…

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Creator Bio

Gershom Shofman

1880–1972
The short-story writer Gershon Shofman received a traditional Jewish education in his native Belarus, at the same time immersing himself in Russian and Hebrew literature. In 1913, he moved to Vienna, where he lived until 1938, later settling in Tel Aviv and then Haifa. His short stories are known for their brevity and frugality, leaving much to the reader’s imagination. Charged with eroticism and often focused on cruelty, they were considered daring at the time. Shofman was awarded the Bialik Prize in 1946 and the Israel Prize in 1956.

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