You Who Cross My Path
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Product Details
Author:
Erez Bitton, Tsipi Keller, Eli Hirsch
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
200
Publisher:
BOA Editions Ltd. (November 10, 2015)
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9781938160875
ISBN-10:
1938160878
Weight:
12.8oz
Dimensions:
6" x 9"
File:
CONSORTIUM-Metadata_Only_Consortium_Customer_Group_Metadata_20260423164737-20260423.xml
Folder:
CONSORTIUM
List Price:
$16.00
Case Pack:
38
As low as:
$12.32
Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
A
Country of Origin:
United States
Pub Discount:
65
Imprint:
BOA Editions Ltd.
Overview
This first U.S. publication of Erez Bitton, one of Israel's most celebrated poets, recalls the fate of Moroccan Jewish culture with poems both evocative and pure. Considered the founding father of Mizrahi Israeli poetry, a major tradition in the history of Hebrew poetry, Bitton's bilingual collection dramatically expands the scope of biographical experience and memory, ultimately resurrecting a vanishing world and culture.
Preliminary Background Words
My mother my mother
from a village of shrubs green of a different green.
From a bird's nest producing milk sweeter than sweet.
From a nightingale's cradle of a thousand Arabian nights.
My mother my mother
who staved off evil
with her middle fingers
with beating her chest
on behalf of all mothers.
My father my father
who delved into worlds
who sanctified the Sabbath with pure Araq
who was most practiced
in synagogue traditions.
Preliminary Background Words
My mother my mother
from a village of shrubs green of a different green.
From a bird's nest producing milk sweeter than sweet.
From a nightingale's cradle of a thousand Arabian nights.
My mother my mother
who staved off evil
with her middle fingers
with beating her chest
on behalf of all mothers.
My father my father
who delved into worlds
who sanctified the Sabbath with pure Araq
who was most practiced
in synagogue traditions.
And I—
having distanced myself
deep into my heart
would recite
when all were asleep
short Bach masses
deep into my heart
in Jewish-
Moroccan.
The 2015 recipient of the Israel Prize, Erez Bitton was born in 1942 to Moroccan parents in Oran, Algeria, and emigrated to Israel in 1948. Blinded by a stray hand grenade in Lod, he spent his childhood in Jerusalem's School for the Blind. He is considered the founding father of Mizrahi Israeli poetry in Israel—the first poet to take on the conflict between North African immigrants and the Ashkenazi society, and the first to use Judeo-Arabic dialect in his poetry.
