Woman with Shells – La Mer (The Sea) and La Mere (The Mother). Ruth Davidson Abrams. Oil on canvas. 1956. Yeshiva University Museum.
I Am Woman
by Malka Heifetz Tussman
translated from the Yiddish by Marcia Falk
I am the exalted Rachel
whose love lit the way for Rabbi Akiba.
I am the small, bashful village girl
who grew up among the…
