Paper Bride
The story takes place seventy years ago in Palestine under the British Mandate. It focuses on a romantic triangle: Anna, a young medical student from Poland; Imri, an idealistic young Jew from a village in Palestine and Major Charles Timothy Parker, a British pilot stationed at the Royal Air Force…
Becoming Gershona
"Out of the blue they told me that grandpa was coming the next day and I never ever knew I had a grandfather." These are the opening lines of the book "Becoming Gershona". The year is 1958, the place is Tel-aviv. Gershona, an only child, is named after her mother's…
Hymn to the Bible
A rich and marvelous collection. Daring and un-prettified contents. The innovations that this book heaps upon us are manifold. The rhyming is sophisticated, delightful, but also demands contemplation and investigation, with its dazzling use of the different layers of Hebrew, both ancient and modern. Nava Semel’s attitude to the heroes…
When we go to kindergarten, our mothers and fathers go to work. My twin sister Jill says that going to kindergarten is the work children do. All our friends have seen where their parents work except for us, the only twins in kindergarten. Once, the teacher asked all the children to tell about their parents' jobs. Michelle's father is a baker. In his bakery, she kneaded dough and baked sesame seed rolls for all the children in kindergarten. Johnny's mother works in a bank. Johnny spent a whole day hunting for a treasure of gold coins, but all he found in the bank were long lines of impatient people. Laurie said her father is the mayor's assistant and then she…