The Case of the Jewish Biography
Coming from Israel, where the genre of biography is much less popular, almost nonexistent, in comparison with the phenomenon in the United States, I feel
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In Search of the Story
I. Blind Date I first met Shlomith in the Fall of 1976 at café Savion in the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Rehavia. It was a blind
Words’ Bodies
Words’ Bodies I say tree, sap, leaves’ noise, wind’s dryness through needles, earth in straw, a crumb from the furrows I say piece of sky,
That Very Hour
The poems in “That Very Hour” exist on the border between reality, thought, and feeling. The material manifests while traveling through intimate, or very foreign,
The Passion of Jerusalem
At the heart of the Jerusalem myth lies passion: the figure of a woman and the man who chooses her out of the intensity of
And So Said Jerusalem
By: Michal GovrinEngravings: Orna Millo Who’s Afraid of Jerusalem Who’s afraid of Jerusalem?Who loathes and despises her?Who execrates her, heart and tongue?Who says, What am
Layers of Changing Space in Jerusalem – View from a Hilltop
The space around me is Jerusalem – my city for over twenty years, since I moved here from my hometown, Tel Aviv, returning from my
Jewish Literary Manifesto (in First Person Feminine)
1. Portrait of the artist as a young Jew: Tel Aviv – Paris – Jerusalem In both a literary and Talmudic spirit, I will present
Martyrs or Survivors? Thoughts on the Mythical Dimension of the Story War
The war the Palestinians started in September 2000, right in the middle of the Barak-Arafat-Clinton talks, I spent in my city, Jerusalem, where Jews and Arabs,
The Making of the Sea, a Chronicle of Exegesis
Michal GovrinLiliane Klapisch: Etching The Making of the Sea is a journal, a chronicle. During the journey, which starts on the seashore at Rio-De-Janeiro and
