To the Sons Who Were Banished from Their Fathers’ Tables

Aharon Almog

1956

My father, my father, how you stood over me
Against childhood sorrows and the agony of years.
You raised children, father, and also great hopes,
and in return received nothing but despair and woes.
I recall the table even as the songs have long ceased,
I shed a tear, mournful and bleak
My sister Liora on a bright Shabbat morn
teaching me a seuda…
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Creator Bio

Aharon Almog

1931–2021

Writer Aharon Almog was born to a Yemenite family that had been living in Tel Aviv since the nineteenth century. Although his grandfather was a founder of the Yemenite Hatikvah neighborhood, Almog’s father, a secular Jew, left it behind. Almog published his first poems in 1951 and by the end of the decade had also begun to publish short stories. His oeuvre, at once ironic and reflective, treats the everyday of Almog’s life and his Yemenite milieu.

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