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Tuvia Ruebner

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POSTCARD FROM JERUSALEM

Jerusalem left Jerusalem and ran away.
That thing up there, surely it can’t be Jerusalem?

© Translation: 2012, Lisa Katz and Shahar Bram

POSTCARD FROM JERUSALEM

© 2005, Tuvia Ruebner & Keshev
From: Selected Poems 1957-2005
Publisher: Keshev, Tel Aviv

Tuvia Ruebner

Tuvia Ruebner

(Slovakia, 1924 - 2019)

Tuvia Ruebner was born into a semi-secular, German-speaking Jewish family (his father was a member of the Freemasons) in Bratislava, Slovakia in 1924. He completed only nine years of school: five in a Protestant elementary school, three in a German gymnasium and one in a Slovakian high school. After Jews were forbidden to attend school, he worked as an apprentice electrician. Ruebner immigrated...

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POSTCARD FROM JERUSALEM

Jerusalem left Jerusalem and ran away.
That thing up there, surely it can’t be Jerusalem?

© 2012, Lisa Katz and Shahar Bram
From: Selected Poems 1957-2005

POSTCARD FROM JERUSALEM

Jerusalem left Jerusalem and ran away.
That thing up there, surely it can’t be Jerusalem?

© 2012, Lisa Katz and Shahar Bram

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