One of Israel’s most distinguished Hebrew writers, Shulamith Hareven has written eighteen books and her work has been translated into nineteen languages. She was the first woman admitted as a full member to the Academy of the Hebrew Language.
Extracted from an article that first appeared in Hebrew in 1988 in Yediot Aharonot, and in English in The Vocabulary of Peace: Life, Culture and Politics in the Middle East. Mercury House, San Francisco, 1995.
