BOOKS 2023 #Workers' Library

Ecopoetics is a thought movement that seeks to examine how culture, through the developed consciousness and imagination, and especially the poetic imagination, can serve as a tool to heal our alienation from the environment. What mutual fertilization is possible between the humanities and literature and between the environmental discourse?

In one neighborhood facing the sea and the bay, unfold the stories of a couple who immigrated to Haifa from the center and found themselves at the beginning of a global epidemic. Into the unstable boundaries of the existing frameworks - marital life, family and work - outside characters invade, evoking in the narrator an erotic urge, a desire for discovery and embarking on a sexual journey.

A story about the afterlife. In a vivid and flexible language, Asaf Shur moves from character to character and from event to event and creates a tangible world of horror and compassion, of cruelty and brotherhood.

Fitz has a well-kept vegetable garden. One day, when she comes to work in the garden, she is startled to discover a foreign, strange and oversized creature, which presents itself as a mushroom - a rare mushroom that emerges after the rain...

Bella Rosenbaum, who was "the most beautiful woman in the world" - a well-known opera singer and a colorful personality in the life of little Tel Aviv - begins to disappear. It happens a little after she gives a lesson in voice development to the cactus on the balcony of the house.

Zvia Lovatkin and Yitzhak (Antak) Zuckerman were the leaders of the Jewish Fighting Organization (IL) in Poland and the most senior fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which broke out on April 19, 1943 and has since been synonymous with heroism during the Holocaust. They survived and immigrated to Israel.