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Admiel Kosman

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A PLEA

Delete me please,
delete me absolutely
from da list,

no more Iz-rah-el, no more
Jewish blood, no
more history,

just no-ting,
quiet, peace,

delete me, just delete,
I beg you, please.

© Translation: 2011, Lisa Katz and Shlomit Naim-Naor
From: Approaching You in English
Publisher: Zephyr, Brookline, MA, 2011

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Admiel Kosman

(Israel, 1957)

Admiel Kosman was born in Haifa to an observant Orthodox Jewish family. His mother came to Israel from Iraq: his father from a German Jewish family which lived in France. Kosman was educated in schools in what is known as the national religious sector. In the army, he served in an artillery unit in a program enabling observant youth to continue religious studies concurrently, in his case at the...

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A PLEA

Delete me please,
delete me absolutely
from da list,

no more Iz-rah-el, no more
Jewish blood, no
more history,

just no-ting,
quiet, peace,

delete me, just delete,
I beg you, please.

A PLEA

Delete me please,
delete me absolutely
from da list,

no more Iz-rah-el, no more
Jewish blood, no
more history,

just no-ting,
quiet, peace,

delete me, just delete,
I beg you, please.