Margalit Matitiahu

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Margalit Matitiahu (b 1935) is a poet in Ladino and Hebrew from Israel.

After the Holocaust, her parents moved to Israel from Thessaloniki, Greece where they were Sephardi Jews who were descendants of Jews from León. She studied Hebrew Literature and Philosophy at Bar Ilan University.

She started writing in Hebrew and in 1988 she published Curtijo Quemado (later in Vela de luz) in Ladino, which is a testimony of Nazi destruction. She has worked as a presenter in radio and investigated her mother tongue. She is a member of the World Academy of Art and Culture (having received a doctorate Honoris Causa), of the Israel PEN club and of the Israel Association of Writers. She has been awarded several prizes.

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[edit] Sample verse

Me visto tu cara sobre la mia,
Y con tus ojos veo tu ermosa sivdad natal.
La tristesa y la maravilla te anvelopan,
En viendo lugares que ya no los conoses mas.
I have seen your face over mine,
And I see your beautiful birth town within your eyes.
Sadness and wonder envelop you,
By seeing places you do not know anymore.

[edit] Her works

[edit] In Hebrew

[edit] In Ladino

  • Alegrica (1993)
  • Matriz de luz & Vela de la luz (1997)
  • Kamino de Tormento (2000)
  • Vagabondo Eternel & Bozes en la Shara (2001)

[edit] External links

  • Primary Music Margalit's Record Label featuring her musical work 'Aromas Y Memorias'