Re: [ha-Safran]: Blackberries and Yom Kippur

2006-10-04 Thread Bernard Katz
Thank you Yoel Sheridan for the evocative excerpt from your longer work. Not too many years ago there was a wonderful feature film made in Britain about two young brothers who were evacuated to Brighton (I think) and had to stay with a non-Jewish married couple, who were rather 'mean' to them i

[ha-Safran]: Blackberries and Yom Kippur

2006-09-29 Thread yoel sheridan
In the year 1940, many children were evacuated from their homes in the major towns of Britain to escape the impending bombing onslaught of the Nazi German Luftwaffe. Among them were many Jewish children who found themselves having to find ways to maintain their Jewish culture within a Christian