Yona Wallach

Yona Wallach, born on 10 June 1944 in Kfar Ono, of which her parents, who came from Bessarabia, were founders, was four years old when her father fell at Givat Kula during the War of Independence; she grew up on the street that bears his name. Expelled from high school, she studied painting at the Avni Institute and published her first poems in 1964, then was hospitalised in Jerusalem, where she was treated notably with LSD. In 1982 her poem “Tefillin” caused an uproar. She died of cancer in 1985, at the age of forty-one.

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• Poetryשני גניםYona Wallach · 1969not translated into EnglishLiterature