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Shoshana Shababo
Shoshana Shababo ( he, שושנה שבבו 1910–1992) was an Israeli writer. Biography Shoshana Shababo was born in Zikhron Ya'akov to a Sephardic Jewish family originally from Safed. Her father, Shlomo Shababo, taught Arabic at Al-Azhar University and moved to Zikhron Ya'akov after being invited to teach there. As a teenager, Shababo attended a local school whose director was the writer Yehuda Burla. She was a gifted student and read a lot of Hebrew and foreign literature. At the age of 15, with the help of a letter of recommendation from Burla, she was accepted to study at the Levinsky College of Education in Tel Aviv. While she was at Levinsky, she began writing short stories and newspaper articles. At 16, she began writing her first book "Maria," which was published in 1932. After the death of her mother, she moved to Paris and spent time with her brother in London. After her return in 1942, she published her second book, "Ahava be-tsfat" (Love in Safed). That same year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zikhron Ya'akov
Zikhron Ya'akov ( he, זִכְרוֹן יַעֲקֹב, ''lit.'' "Jacob's Memorial"; often shortened to just ''Zikhron'') is a town in Israel, south of Haifa, and part of the Haifa District. It is located at the southern end of the Carmel mountain range overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, near the coastal highway ( Highway 2). It was one of the first Jewish settlements of Halutzim in the country, founded in 1882 by Baron Edmond James de Rothschild and named in honor of his father, James Mayer de Rothschild ("James" being derived from the Hebrew name Ya'akov, Jacob). In it had a population of . History Zikhron Ya'akov was founded in December 1882 when 100 Jewish pioneers from Romania, members of the Hibbat Zion movement, purchased two plots of land 5 km apart: 6000 dunam in Zammarin and 500 dunam in Tantura. The land was acquired for 46000 francs from Frances Germain, a French citizen, probably of Christian Arab origin. Deeming the name of the place to derive from "Samaria", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
