Woman with Shells – La Mer (The Sea) and La Mere (The Mother). Ruth Davidson Abrams. Oil on canvas. 1956. Yeshiva University Museum. I Am Womanby Malka Heifetz Tussmantranslated from the Yiddish by Marcia Falk I am the exalted Rachelwhose love lit the way for Rabbi Akiba. I am the small, bashful village girlwho grew up among the tall poplarsand blushed at the “Good…
