Working for the Present: Essays on Contemporary Israeli Culture
Adi Ophir
2001
The Revelation of the Gentile
Gentile is a category of difference. It is the point of departure, something self-evident. The Jew at prayer declares this daily: “Thou hast chosen us from all the nations.… And our God has separated between the holy and the profane, between light and darkness, between Israel and the nations, between the seventh day…
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At noon in the kasbah
When the souk was packed
I’d be walking around
My chest toned and hard
And they’d all be saying: What a guy
And as I walked down the alleyways
From every window…
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