Tel Aviv in the Thirties: A lean time for writers

From: Jerusalem Post | Date: April 2, 1995| Author: SRAYA SHAPIRO | Copyright information


Jerusalem Post

04-02-1995

ABSORPTION has never been easy, even for dyed-in-the-wool Zionists.

Yitzhak Dov Berkowitz had a dream. He imagined himself living in a small stone house near the sea, raising vegetables in

his courtyard, milking his two goats, evoking in his vision the biblical Gideon and the Galilee sages.

He hated the noisy vulgarity of the American scene, in which he had settled shortly before World War II. He wrote to the fa...

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