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...slow, detailed description of the event still bears traces of the emotions that it has raised in her: "On the walls of our house we put a sign saying: 'Is it Good to Die for Your Country Again?' and under that sign we had a picture of our son, Yochanan, who was killed in Lebanon." Yochanan had been buried in Gaza, but his remains will eventually leave the area along with his parents, though it's uncertain where he will be reburried...
...After that, the couple had a last walk through the rooms. They then went with the soldiers to the center of the village and asked the troops to let them enter the youth club that was built in the memory of Yochanan. "One of the soldiers, an Air Force pilot, accompanied us," says Bryna. She told him that she hopes that he will be able to live with himself after what he has done that...
...Hilburgs buckled down to the practical business of turning Gaza's sand into fruitful farmland. They had six children: three are married, two are in the army, and the children profess a range of religious faith, from ultra-Orthodox to secular. Their second son Yochanan was killed in 1997, at age 22, while serving in an élite Israeli commando unit during a raid into Lebanon. The Hilburgs defied family members who urged that Yochanan receive a military funeral in Jerusalem. "He loved it here," says Bryna. "We decided he would be buried here, where he lived, where...
...first chapter displays the narrative strategy she will employ throughout. A passage under the heading "My Father Writes" reads, "Rabbi Yochanan Schine, a student of the famous Chatam Sofer, was engaged to Esther Sophie Goldner Herschell, the granddaughter of the chief Rabbi of the British Empire. Esther and Yochanan were my great-great-grandparents. They migrated to Palestine and married in 1837 in Jerusalem." Under the heading "I Write," Eve tells the story of Esther's infatuation, in Jerusalem, with a baker and the nine-year love affair that ensues, with, almost from its inception, her husband's knowledge: "Yochanan...
This odd, mystical communion between husband and wife comes to seem an almost heritable trait in succeeding generations of this temporally extended family. When Avra, Yochanan and Esther's granddaughter and a practicing kleptomaniac, marries Shimon, who has come to Palestine from Russia, she tells him of her many past thefts and adds, truthfully, that she invariably returned the stolen goods, although not always to their rightful owners. Shimon is at first shocked and appalled and then fascinated. He asks her for more details, and she obliges, spinning stories about the places where the objects she stole originated. As they...
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