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The Sublime Alterman by Phyllis Chesler Israel National News October 7, 2011 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1041/nathan-alterman Send RSS Share: Be the first of your friends to like this. Excerpt: I recently attended a Hebrew poetry class taught by a friend, Atara Fobar, who translates Hebrew poetry into English. Atara is a serious teacher and is the distinguished translator of Moshe Itzhaki. Every month, Atara teaches poetry to religious Jews of a certain age—to the kind of people whose delight in learning is almost child-like and which renders them ageless. We are a bit like those Jews who continued to write and produce plays, newspapers, and musical evenings in Holocaust era ghettos, who so optimistically kept taking books out of libraries (and returning them) until they could no longer do so. We lucky few do not live in such ghettos but still, we are Jews who were alive during the Holocaust and who now live in the shadow of a potential second genocide. We ourselves are in no immediate physical danger--the class meets in America, in Riverdale, a leafy, hilly, suburb of my Manhattan--but our "hearts are in the East" and so we feel the palpable, existential danger that Israel currently faces. Read the complete original version of this item... Related Topics: Israel
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