What Did the War of Independence Do to Its Writers?

Fiction writer and essayist Amalia Kahana-Carmon was born at Kibbutz ‘Ein Ḥarod and raised in Tel Aviv. In the 1940s, she was a member of the underground military Haganah and later joined the fighting branch, the Palmach, taking part in the 1948 war as a radio operator. Her first book, Bi-khfifah aḥat (Under One Roof), was published in 1966 to great acclaim. Her lyrical, allusive style and her subtle rendering of female consciousness made her a dominant figure in Israeli women’s writing. She received the Israel Prize for Literature in 2000.