Mourning a Father Lost A Kibbutz Childhood

Returning to the kibbutz of his childhood to attend his father's funeral, Avraham Balaban confronts his still intensely painful childhood memories. With a poet's keen voice, the author weaves together two interrelated stories: a sensitive artist growing u

Avraham Balaban since 1989, has taught modern Hebrew literature at the Univeristy of Florida, and, from 1996 to 2002, he also chaired the Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures.

Child of a Dream, Child of a Laboratory

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PART I: Ten Opening Data

Broken Skies

3

(7)

Remembering a Lack

10

(5)

A Moment's Silence, Please

15

(5)

What Did You Learn in Kindergarten Today?

20

(4)

Gordonia Hulda

24

(6)

Four Eyes, Two Mouths

30

(4)

Crowding

34

(4)

Cultivators

38

(3)

Death in a Clown's Cap

41

(3)

Observing Hands-Possible Memories: A Note on First-Person Narratives

44

(5)

PART II: Words

Pampered Children-Nehemiah

49

(4)

A Decent Society

53

(3)

Words

56

(6)

A Lost War

62

(3)

A Wet Icicle

65

(5)

What Memory Recalls

70

(3)

Blue Bruises on the Flesh: Openings on Life

73

(5)

Pampered Children-Yossi

78

(4)

Singing and Weeping: Early Training

82

(4)

Pampered Children

86

(2)

Crowding: Hairstyles from Overseas

88

(4)

Pampered Children-Shlomo

92

(2)

Pampered Children: Sex Is Little Moments of Love

94

(2)

Pampered Children Batsheva

96

(3)

Singing and Crying: Homeland Songs

99

(7)

Coffee

106

(2)

A Dream

108

(2)

Parting

110

(11)

PART III: Completions

The Return Home

121

(4)

Early Days

125

(4)

Birth

129

(2)

What Have They Done to You?

131

(6)

A Miss

137

(6)

Laboratory Child, Laboratory Mother

143

(6)

Days of Crisis

149

(8)

Portrait of Man as a Poet

157

(2)

A Walk: A Place

159

(9)

A Nocturnal Chat

168

(1)

Circles: Children's Stories

169

(3)

A Family Picture

172

(2)

A Will

174

(2)

Completions: Two Possible Stories

176

(4)

Crowding

180

(7)

The Wheel Turns

187

(3)

An Israeli Sorrow

190

(2)

Love

192

(2)

A Miss: A Possible Journey to Bendery

194

(3)

Dry Sobs

197

(4)

About the Author

201

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Mourning a Father Lost A Kibbutz Childhood Remembered

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