Podcasts religion Israel in Translation A circle of friends

A circle of friends

Published: May 27, 2015, 4:25 p.m.

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Dalia Betolin-Sherman was born in Ethiopia in 1979. In 1984 she crossed Sudan by foot and immigrated to Israel with her parents and sister.

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Her short story collection,\\xa0When the World Became White, came out in Hebrew in 2013. Host Marcela Sulak reads from one of its stories\\xa0-\\xa0\\u201cCircle of Friends\\u201d - translated by Ilana Kurshan.

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Adva stands there looking at herself in the mirror of the girls\\u2019 bathroom... Today she has a special hairdo in honor of the performance, and she examines it from all angles...\\xa0The rest of the girls cluster around her and try to push their way in. Some of them stand on their tip toes, and climb over each other, but everyone gets only a small section of the mirror. We are last. We wait until they and the ordinary girls leave. We don\\u2019t bother with the hair that sprouts wildly from our heads in a \\u201cfro,\\u201d as the other kids call it.

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Find out what happens to Adva\'s beautiful hair during the performance...

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Texts:

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\\u201cCircle of Friends,\\u201d by Dalia Betolin Sherman, translated by Ilana Kurshan. The Ilanot Review.

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Music:

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The Idan Raichel Project - Shuvi El Beyti

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The Idan Raichel Project - Milim Yaffot Me\'Eleh

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The Idan Raichel Project - Ayal Ayale

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