Author: VQT
Exotic Mirrors: In the eyes of the others and other stories
“the only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of eternal youth, wouLd be not to visit strange Lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is…”
Read MoreA Modern (Jewish) Woman in a Café: Leah Goldberg and the Poetic Space of the Coffeehouse
The article investigates all these aspects of coffeehouse culture through three decades of Goldberg’s career in Europe and in the Yishuv and Israel (especially in Berlin, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem), shedding new light on Goldberg’s life and work and her unique place in modern Jewish culture.
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