Esther Raab

Esther Raab, born in Petah Tikva in 1894, daughter of Yehuda Raab, one of the founders of this first Hebrew colony, was taken out of school at fifteen by her father, who was opposed to mixed classes. She spent 1913 at Degania with the pioneers, worked the land during the war and taught at Ben Shemen from 1919. Married in Cairo at the end of 1921 to her cousin Yitzhak Green, she lived about five years outside the country, then in Tel Aviv, where her house became a gathering place for writers and painters. Widowed in 1930, she died in Kiryat Tivon on 4 September 1981.

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• PoetryקמשוניםEsther Raab · 1930not translated into EnglishLiterature