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Yona Wallach

Israel in Translation

Making Queer History

Queer as Fact

Josephine Baker

Ewan Forbes

Lesbia Harford

Maryam Khatoon Molkara

Billy Tipton

Gianni Versace

Amos Oz

Michael Kramer

James Barry

Audre Lorde

Langston Hughes

Robert Alter

Etgar Keret

Horace Walpole

Bayard Rustin

OwlTail

This month we talk about Yona Wallach, and Laura recommends The Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss. https://www.sarahmoss.org/ghost-wall/ [Disclaimer: some of the sources may contain triggering material.] Sela, M. (June 15, 2012) Thirty Years After Yona Wallach's 'Tefillin' Was Published, the Poem and Photo Remain as Provocative as Ever Retrieved March 10, 2017 http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/thirty-years-after-yona-wallach-s-tefillin-was-published the-poem-and-photo-remain-as-provocative-as-ever.premium-1.436587 Bernstein, C. (June 12, 2014) Yona Wallach (June 10, 1944 – September 29, 1985) Retrieved March 10, 2017 http://jacket2.org/commentary/yona-wallach Cohen, Z. YONA WALLACH 1944 – 1985. Retrieved March 11, 2017 https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/wallach-yona Tsoffar, R. STAGING SEXUALITY, READING WALLACH’S POETRY. Retrieved March 11, 2017 http://wjudaism.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/wjudaism/article/viewFile/276/331 Investigation and Fantasies. (October 4, 2013) Yona Wallach as Last of the Hebrews Retrieved March 11, 2017 https://investigationsandfantasies.com/2013/10/04/33/ Rattok, L. Israeli Women's Writing in Hebrew: 1948-2004. Retrieved March 11, 2017 https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/israeli-womens-writing-in-hebrew-1948-2004

This month we talk about Yona Wallach, and Laura recommends The Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss. <a href="https://www.sarahmoss.org/ghost-wall/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.sarahmoss.org/ghost-wall/</a> [Disclaimer: some of the sources may contain triggering material.] Sela, M. (June 15, 2012) Thirty Years After Yona Wallach's 'Tefillin' Was Published, the Poem and Photo Remain as Provocative as Ever Retrieved March 10, 2017 <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/thirty-years-after-yona-wallach-s-tefillin-was-published" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/thirty-years-after-yona-wallach-s-tefillin-was-published</a> the-poem-and-photo-remain-as-provocative-as-ever.premium-1.436587 Bernstein, C. (June 12, 2014) Yona Wallach (June 10, 1944 – September 29, 1985) Retrieved March 10, 2017 <a href="http://jacket2.org/commentary/yona-wallach" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://jacket2.org/commentary/yona-wallach</a> Cohen, Z. YONA WALLACH 1944 – 1985. Retrieved March 11, 2017 <a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/wallach-yona" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/wallach-yona</a> Tsoffar, R. STAGING SEXUALITY, READING WALLACH’S POETRY. Retrieved March 11, 2017 <a href="http://wjudaism.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/wjudaism/article/viewFile/276/331" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://wjudaism.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/wjudaism/article/viewFile/276/331</a> Investigation and Fantasies. (October 4, 2013) Yona Wallach as Last of the Hebrews Retrieved March 11, 2017 <a href="https://investigationsandfantasies.com/2013/10/04/33/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://investigationsandfantasies.com/2013/10/04/33/</a> Rattok, L. Israeli Women's Writing in Hebrew: 1948-2004. Retrieved March 11, 2017 <a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/israeli-womens-writing-in-hebrew-1948-2004" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/israeli-womens-writing-in-hebrew-1948-2004</a>

We are back from our hiatus with an episode on the bisexual Israeli poet, Yona Wallach. Join us as we visit Tel Aviv's 1960s gay scene, learn about gender in Hebrew, and read some of Yona's most controversial poetry. Sources

We are back from our hiatus with an episode on the bisexual Israeli poet, Yona Wallach. Join us as we visit Tel Aviv's 1960s gay scene, learn about gender in Hebrew, and read some of Yona's most controversial poetry. <a href="https://queerasfact.tumblr.com/post/181130286017/yona-wallach-sources" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sources</a>

Yona Wallach was born in 1944 in Tel Aviv and never travelled outside Israel's borders. Eleven collections of her poetry have been published during her lifetime and posthumously, and many of her songs have been put to music. She also wrote for and joined a rock band. Though she died in 1985 of breast cancer at the age of 41, she is still very much present in Tel Aviv. Never one to shy away from controversy, her provocative (some would say pornographic) poem 'Tefillin' created a public storm and ruined her close friendship with fellow poet Zelda. Wallach certainly made an astonishing impact on Hebrew literature during her short life, ushering in a feminist revolution in Israeli poetry and revolutionizing literary Hebrew to include the sounds of the twentieth century. In her poem 'Hebrew,' from which host Marcela Sulak reads, she calls the Hebrew language a "sex maniac" because all nouns have a gender: "She wants to know who’s speaking / almost a vision almost an image / what’s forbidden in the whole Torah / or at least to see the sex / Hebrew peeks through they keyhole."   Text: Yona Wallach, Let the Words: Selected Poems, translated by Linda Stern Zisquit. The Sheep Meadow Press, 2006.   Music: 'Ayala' by Yona Wallach. Performed by Alma. 'I couldn’t do anything with it' by Yona Wallach. Performed by Ninet Tayeb.

Yona Wallach was born in 1944 in Tel Aviv and never travelled outside Israel's borders. Eleven collections of her poetry have been published during her lifetime and posthumously, and many of her songs have been put to music. She also wrote for and joined a rock band. Though she died in 1985 of breast cancer at the age of 41, she is still very much present in Tel Aviv. Never one to shy away from controversy, her provocative (some would say pornographic) poem 'Tefillin' created a public storm and ruined her close friendship with fellow poet Zelda. Wallach certainly made an astonishing impact on Hebrew literature during her short life, ushering in a feminist revolution in Israeli poetry and revolutionizing literary Hebrew to include the sounds of the twentieth century. In her poem 'Hebrew,' from which host Marcela Sulak reads, she calls the Hebrew language a "sex maniac" because all nouns have a gender: "She wants to know who’s speaking / almost a vision almost an image / what’s forbidden in the whole Torah / or at least to see the sex / Hebrew peeks through they keyhole." Text: Yona Wallach, Let the Words: Selected Poems, translated by Linda Stern Zisquit. The Sheep Meadow Press, 2006. Music: 'Ayala' by Yona Wallach. Performed by Alma. 'I couldn’t do anything with it' by Yona Wallach. Performed by Ninet Tayeb.