Tabib Mordechai (1 results)
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Published by Am Oved Publishers Ltd, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1968
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. In Hebrew. 187 pages. 180 x 106 mm. Top left corner of title page has a very small rubber stamp impression in Hebrew of the former owner, Professor Michael (Milton) Arfa, the distinguished Rabbi, author and professor of Hebrew literature and philosophy. Dr. Arfa taught generations of…students at Yeshiva University, Herzliah Hebrew Teachers Institute, Hunter College, HUC-JIR and NYU. As chairman of the Israel Matz Foundation, Dr. Arfa devoted himself to aiding indigent Hebrew writers, and published scholarly works of Hebrew literature and philosophy. He was a gifted teacher, humanitarian, scholar, lover of Zion and above all a modest and quiet doer of good deeds. He died in 2003. This collection of stories, first published in 1953, is considered the finest work of Mordechai Tabib. The book was acclaimed by the critics and won the Ussishkin Prize. Four of the collection's stories deal with the life of Yemenite Jews who settled in Israel. In each of them Tabib, himself a member of the community, deals with a different aspect of the community's life. Prominent in this collection are figures of Yemenite women whose plight has great because of their social status. The fifth story, a dirt road, whose hero is a Palmach fighter, touches upon the existential questions of the individual, and reveals the healing and redeeming power of love. His beautiful Hebrew, which draws on the sources of the "Midrash HaGadol" of the Yemenite Jews, excels in its richness of expression and nuances. . .
