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.
The first two nights of Passover we had big Seders, which are festive dinners. Everyone wore their best clothes, and Mama cooked special traditional foods like chicken soup with matzo balls and potato…
Then Israel sang this song:
Spring up, O well—sing to it—
The well which the chieftains dug,
Which the nobles of the people started
With maces, with their own staffs.
I left his house
Of my own volition.
In order to build him a house
Of my own volition.
But it seems my father
Remained solitary
And neglected
Not of his own volition.
I was moving towards my…