Yehudit Hendel

Yehudit Hendel, born in Warsaw on 25 October 1921 into a Hasidic family of rabbinic lineage, arrived in 1930 with her family in Nesher, near Haifa, where her father became a bus driver. In 1948 she married the painter Zvi Meirovich and lived with him in Haifa until 1974; widowed, she settled in Tel Aviv in 1980. After this novel she published almost nothing for fifteen years, then came short stories, a book about her husband, Ha-Koah ha-aher (1984), and the account of a journey to Poland (1987). She received the Israel Prize in 2003 and died in Tel Aviv on 23 May 2014.

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• NovelStreet of Stepsרחוב המדרגותYehudit Hendel · 1955Literature