Apples from the Desert

Published in the United States and Canada by

The Feminist Press at The City University of New York

Wingate Hall, City College

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New York, NY 10031

Published simultaneously in Great Britain by Loki Books Ltd.

38 Chalcot Crescent, London NW1 8YD

First English-language edition, 1998

02 01 00 99 98 6 5 4 3 2

Compilation and worldwide translation copyright © 1998 by The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature, with the exception of the following stories: “A Room on the Roof,” English translation copyright © by Ariel: The Israeli Review of Arts and Letters; “Apples from the Desert,” English translation copyright © by Barbara Harshav; “Compassion,” English translation copyright © by Riva Rubin.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Liebrecht, Savyon, 1948-

[Short stories. English. Selections.]

Apples from the desert : selected stories / by Savyon Liebrecht ; translated from the Hebrew by Marganit Weinberger-Rotman . . . [et al.] under the director of The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature ; foreword by Grace Paley ; introduction by Lily Rattok.

p. cm.— (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish women’s series)

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-1-55861-644-8

1. Liebrecht, Savyon, 1948- —Translations into English. I. Weinberger-Rotman, Marganit. II. Makhon le-tirgum sifrut ‘Ivrit (Israel). III. Title. IV. Series.

PJ5054.L444T3613 1998	892.4’36—dc21
	CIP

Steven H. Scheuer, in memory of his mother and in celebration of her life and the 100th anniversary of her birth (1995), has been pleased to endow the Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women’s Series. Apples from the Desert is the fourth named book in the series.

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