Israel in Translation

On today's episode, we're listening to pieces from Roy "Chicky" Arad. In addition to writing poetry and novels, painting, editing, journalism and activism, Chicky is also a singer and musician. His works are usually political. In 2001, during the peak of Intifadah, he was amongst the founders of the "Rave Against Occupation" assembly, which organized protest-parties of Arab and Israeli youth against the 1967 occupation.

Music:Look at the sky by Roy Arad Sputnik In Love Karaoke Version by Roy Arad

Text: Roy Chicky Arad: Poetry and Literature

Adi Sorek is the author of Sometimes You Lose People (which won the 2013 Goldberg Prize), Internal Tourism, Seven Matrons, Spaces, and new novel, Nathan. Her work is described as subtle and musical, a study in a possibility of lingering in intermediate zones and looking at the tiny details that comprise the reality of being and the fabric of the personal, familial, and public. Host Marcela Sulak reads two pieces of Sorek's work on today's episode.

Music: Missing You by The Bridge Project Ocean sounds by mysoundeffect.com

Host Marcela Sulak reads a long poem by Yehezkel Kedmi, called "My People, Knowledge, and Me," translated by Ammiel Alcalay. Kedmi was born in Jerusalem and spent much of his youth and adult life on the streets. He is an autodidact, expanding his range of interests while working as a night watchman at Hebrew University.

Text: Yehezkel Kedmi, "My People, Knowledge, and Me," translated by Ammiel Alcalay in Keys to the Garden: New Israeli Writing. Edited by Ammiel Alcalay. City Lights Books, 1996.

Yael Dayan's memoir, Transitions: Close Up, translated by Maya Klein, is about losses and regrets, with fine focus on the detailed physical world. Dayan is the oldest child of the late Moshe Dayan, the moody and enigmatic hero of the Six Days' War, revered as the symbol of the national and military rebirth of the Jewish people, yet reviled as Defense Minister during the 1973 Yom Kippur War for Israel's failures. Host Marcela Sulak reads from the preface and a favorite passage on today's episode.

Text: Transitions: Close Up by Yael Dayan, translated by Maya Klein. Mosaic Press, Nov. 2016.

Host Marcella Sulak participated in a collaboration with a young, talented poet in Gaza. The collaboration was sponsored by the Peace Factory. Today's episode is about Israel's impact on a particular literary endeavor in Gaza. Marcela says, "We felt it was important to get to know one another as people and as poets, not just as ideological issues."

Music: My White and Brown Land by The Bridge Project

Host Marcella Sulak participated in a collaboration with a young, talented poet in Gaza. The collaboration was sponsored by the Peace Factory. Today’s episode is about Israel’s impact on a particular literary endeavor in Gaza. Marcela says, “We felt it was important to get to know one another as people and as poets, not just as ideological issues.” 

Music:
My White and Brown Land by The Bridge Project