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Hannah the blind woman was told before her wedding that her future husband was a widower in the tobacco business; at first they also assured her that this widower had been left with no children from…
Contributor:
Jacob Steinberg
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1922
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In Jewish folklore the sight of a water carrier bearing one or two full pails is an omen of good fortune; empty pails foretell bad fortune. The funeral’s early, the concert is late.I go to both (such…
Contributor:
Abraham Sutzkever
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1975
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“Your teeth are bars of bone. Behind them, in a crystal cell, your shackled words. Remember the advice of an elder: the guilty, those that dropped poison pearls into your goblet—let them go free. In…
Contributor:
Abraham Sutzkever
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1956