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at the time), to founding residents Judah (Yehuda) and Leah Raab. Raab's grandfather was an immigrant from the
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December 1921, Raab married her cousin, Yitzhak Green, in
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Kronfeld, Chana (1996). "Chapter 3—Behind the Graph and the Map: Literary
Historiography and the Hebrew Margins of Modernism".
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and Raab, aged fifteen, was prohibited by her father from attending. She later wrote that she was much hurt by that decision.
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Olmert, Dana (2012). "Eucalyptus Trees, Ars-Poetica, and
Feminine Manhood in the Early Poetry of Esther Raab".
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in her works. Much of Raab's poetry also manipulates traditional ideas of
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The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature
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Slutsky, Yehuda (2007). "Raab (Ben-Ezer), Judah". In
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Complete and authorized bibliography of her writings
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A Destroyed Garden: selected stories and seven poems
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