The Tel Aviv of the 1950s at children’s height

The words conceal many secrets. However, They can exclude. Moreover, Tzipi, the little tel aviv 1950s children’s height narrator, does not understand everything that is said about her. Because, between them, her parents speak the Yiddish that she has not learned. As they address her in Hebrew, the language of Israel where they live. Tzipi was born there in 1949, barely a year after the creation of the State. Originally from Poland like her husband, her mother says that you shouldn’t look back. The past would risk engulfing you. As if to add to the ambient mystery. this teacher mother and this musicologist also have the habit of inventing their own words.

Then the curious. boiling little girl seems to rise on tiptoe to grasp scraps of adult life, to decipher the stammering universe that is moving around at the same time as she grows. In a series of sketches, she recounts a world at a child’s tel aviv 1950s children’s height level, the Tel Aviv of the 1950s. Metaphor of a country that is built on memorial scars and buried injuries, the autobiographical story of Rach…