Woman from the Earth

Yael Feiler

1981

When God created the first man, Adam, and realized that he was all alone, God said: It is not good for a man to be alone and he created a woman for Adam and named her Lilith. From the beginning, before God created Eve, Adam just sat there, desolate and dreary, and things weren’t good for him on his own. God had given Adam Lilith to be his wife, to…

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Creator Bio

Yael Feiler

b. 1953

Born in Israel, Yael Feiler is a writer, translator, and theater scholar who now lives in Sweden. She has written about feminism in Israel, and teaches at the University of Stockholm. Her Woman from the Earth received first prize at the Acco Theatre Festival in 1982.

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