A Bookhouse evening of poetry reading, tea, and sweets.
Join us for an evening of poetry reading in English, Italian, Urdu, and Hebrew.
Please make a reservation: rsvp@primolevicenter.org (include the program’s title in the subject line).
Layla, night, the most feminine of all things, is masculine
in Hebrew, but it is also the name of a woman.
Sun is masculine, and sunset is feminine,
the memory of the masculine in the feminine, and the yearning
of a woman in a man. That is to say: the two of us, that is to say: we.
And why is Elohim, God, in the plural? Because All of Him
are sitting in the shade under a Canopy of wines in Akko,
Playing cards. […]
Yehudah Amichai, in: Open Closed Open, 2000
(Translated by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld)
