The Book of Israela. Rena Blumenthal
other incident, when Grandpa Itzik was a little boy. You have to understand—life in Palestine was incredibly harsh in those days. It was very demeaning for Ibra, after being a successful businessman in Syria. He was a middle-aged man, uprooted from everything that was familiar to him. He struggled to learn Hebrew, could barely make a living. There were very few Sephardi immigrants in those days, and the Ashkenazi elite looked down on them. Y was also Sephardi, of course, but he was young and spoke fluent Hebrew—it was easy for Ibra to become dependent on him. At any rate, from what I gather Ibra would do just about anything Y said.”
“So what was the incident that caused your great-grandmother’s death?” I asked.
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