Writing the Nakba in Hebrew

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The epigraph to the second part of Anton Shammas’s novel Arabesques, first published in Hebrew in 1986, reads: Dresses of beautiful women, in blue and white.And everything in three languages: Hebrew, Arabic and Death. These lines are from a poem by Yehuda Amichai, Israel’s unofficial poet laureate. It might seem at first a curious choice […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/04/20/writing-the-nakba-in-hebrew-arabesques-anton-shammas/

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