A Guest for the Holiday

Yocheved Saks

1977

And suddenly he lifted his eyes to see,
A stranger approaching the hill with the tree.
He jumped off the branch and hurried below,
Joining the old man who walked on the road.
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Yocheved Saks

b. 1938

Born in Jerusalem, Yocheved Saks is a children’s book writer, editor, and journalist. She was one of the first writers whose audience is the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Israeli population. In the 1950s, Saks wrote for the weekly Erev Shabbat, and was later an editor at the Saxophone Library Press. Many of Saks’s works have been translated and dramatized.

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