7 min listen
On the silence of the Yemenites
ratings:
Length:
8 minutes
Released:
Feb 17, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Today host Marcela Sulak reads the poetry of Ahron Almog, a poet, playwright, and novelist who was born in Tel Aviv in 1931 to a Yemenite family. His grandfather, who immigrated to Palestine with the "Ahaleh BeTamar" operation (1881-1882), was among those who established the Yemenite Quarter ("Kerem HaTemanim") in Tel Aviv, where Almog was born.
"Yemenites from the transit camp came to my grandfather’s housesat and kept silentwhile one sang the other waitedso I was raised between howlingand silence..."
Almog graduated from the Mikve Yisrael Agricultural School and Tel Aviv University, and taught Hebrew literature at a Tel Aviv high school. He is married to the novelist Ruth Almog, and they have two daughters. One of them, Eliana, suggests we consider her father as a poet of quiet protest.
Texts:By Ahron Almog: "On the Silence of the Yemenites"; "About My Mother"; "I Have a Longing"; "The Donkeys Have Disappeared"; "Not Coconut"By Eliana Almog: "My father, the protest poet"
Music:Aharon Amram - Ayin VelevAhuva Ozeri - Shanim ShanimAhuva Ozeri - Mahar Azil Dim'aAharon Amram - Ya TayriShai Tsabari - Me'alai Dmama
"Yemenites from the transit camp came to my grandfather’s housesat and kept silentwhile one sang the other waitedso I was raised between howlingand silence..."
Almog graduated from the Mikve Yisrael Agricultural School and Tel Aviv University, and taught Hebrew literature at a Tel Aviv high school. He is married to the novelist Ruth Almog, and they have two daughters. One of them, Eliana, suggests we consider her father as a poet of quiet protest.
Texts:By Ahron Almog: "On the Silence of the Yemenites"; "About My Mother"; "I Have a Longing"; "The Donkeys Have Disappeared"; "Not Coconut"By Eliana Almog: "My father, the protest poet"
Music:Aharon Amram - Ayin VelevAhuva Ozeri - Shanim ShanimAhuva Ozeri - Mahar Azil Dim'aAharon Amram - Ya TayriShai Tsabari - Me'alai Dmama
Released:
Feb 17, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
I have been planted with the pines: Lea Goldberg is the best-selling poet in the history of Israel. Many of her poems express both a love of the land of Israel, as well as nostalgia for her abandoned home in the diaspora. Do you know which university department she founded and chaired?... by Israel in Translation