Born in Slovakia, Miryam Rot was a children’s book writer and theorist who wrote about kibbutz life. She immigrated to Palestine in 1931. Rot received the Zeev Award and the UNICEF Smile Award. In 2002, she received the Bialik Prize for Literature.
A peasant was transporting a large cart of hay. He had to pass through a low gateway, but the cart couldn’t pass under it. People advised the peasant to wear glasses with magnifying lenses, so that…
In a dingy kitchen
Facing a Ghetto backyard
An old woman is chanting Jeremiah’s Lamentations,
Quaveringly,
Out of a Hebrew Bible.
The gaslight flares and falls . . .
This night,
Two thousand…
Of course I could explain the history and the comings and goings of the Jews, assuring you that they have suffered much, that everyone persecuted them because they could, that those caricatures you’d…