Ayelet Tsabari’s “Savta”

03/24/21 • 8 min

Marcela shares the second installment of a three-part podcast on Ayalet Tsabari’s important and beautiful memoir, The Art of Leaving. Although it was written in English, Tsabari’s native language is Hebrew. This episode gives us a glimpse of Israelis from Yemen, whose stories are so rarely told.

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Ayelet Tsabari, The Art of Leaving. Harper Collins, 2019.

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Ayelet Tsabari, The Art of Leaving. Harper Collins, 2019.

Previous Episode

A. B. Yehoshua’s “The Lover”

On this episode, Marcela highlights The Lover, the first novel by A. B. Yehoshua, which he wrote in 1977. Yehoshua has been called the Israeli Faulkner, perhaps because of this novel. It is narrated from the point of view of each of its six main characters.

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The Lover by A. B. Yehoshua. Translated by Philip Simpson. Doubleday & Co., 1978.

https://tlv1.fm/arts-culture/2015/07/22/a-b-yehoshuas-green-seas-and-yellow-continents/

https://tlv1.fm/israel-in-translation/2020/08/12/the-tunnel/

Next Episode

The Poetry of Avot Yeshurun

On this episode, Marcela features the poems of a fascinating writer whose pen name was Avot Yeshurun. He published his first book of poems in 1942, and his last book appeared in 1992, on the day before he died.

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“Memories are a House” by Avot Yeshurun. Translated by Leon Weiseltier, Poetry Magazine

“The Son of the Wall” by Avot Yeshurun. Translated by Leon Weiseltier, Poetry Magazine

“The Collection” by Avot Yeshurun. Translated by Harold Schimel, Poetry International Rotterdam

“A Day Shall Come” by Avot Yeshurun, translated by A. Z. Foreman in Poems Found in Translation