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On the silence of the Yemenites

Published: Feb. 17, 2016, 5:55 p.m.

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Today host Marcela Sulak reads the poetry of\\xa0Ahron Almog,\\xa0a poet, playwright, and novelist who was born in Tel Aviv in 1931 to a Yemenite family.\\xa0His grandfather, who immigrated to Palestine with the "Ahaleh BeTamar" operation (1881-1882),\\xa0was among those who established the Yemenite Quarter ("Kerem HaTemanim") in Tel Aviv, where Almog was born.

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"Yemenites from the transit camp came to my grandfather\\u2019s house
sat and kept silent
while one sang the other waited
so I was raised between howling
and silence..."

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Almog graduated from the Mikve Yisrael Agricultural School and Tel Aviv University, and taught Hebrew literature at a Tel Aviv high school. He\\xa0is married to the novelist Ruth Almog, and they have two daughters. One of them,\\xa0Eliana, suggests we consider her father as a poet of quiet protest.

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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"

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Music:
Aharon Amram - Ayin Velev
Ahuva Ozeri - Shanim Shanim
Ahuva Ozeri - Mahar Azil Dim\'a
Aharon Amram - Ya Tayri
Shai Tsabari - Me\'alai Dmama

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