The Vengeance of the Fathers

Yitshak Shami

1928

Chapter Five

From here to the shrine of Nabi Moussa was some twenty-five miles. Allah, wanting to placate his favorite, and mitigate the punishment which He had imposed on him in His anger, had promised Moses before he died that He would not leave him alone in the distant desert, to be visited only by heat and dust. He had therefore instructed the…

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Yitshak Shami

1888–1949

Yitshak Shami was an unusual contributor to the world of Hebrew literature in the interwar years: his background was Mizrahi rather than Ashkenazi, and his fiction featured Palestinian Arabs. Born in Hebron to a Syrian Jewish family, he moved to Jerusalem at age seventeen, adopted Western dress, and attended a teachers’ seminary, where he received a certificate in 1909 and began publishing short stories. He taught in Jewish schools in Damascus and Bulgaria and then returned to the Land of Israel in 1919, where he made his home first in Tiberias and then in Hebron. His literary output was slim: a book of short stories and two novellas, written largely in the 1920s.

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