Edward Ephraim Kalish
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Portrets of our ancestors. Walking in the streets of the old Haifa, in it’s bazaars, I like to peer into different faces. I love Jewish faces, their large beautiful noses, large eyes and ears, their black curled and fiery ginger hairs… It doesn’t mean that I don’t like other faces.

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Esther

Rivka

Debora

           Mashiach

Rachel
 

But when I am looking into typical Jewish faces, and it doesn’t matter if it is a seller of spices at the bazaar, or a clerk in a bank  (or a seller of olives), they all make alive some pictures in my imagination, which I had never seen, but my genetic memory draws them very exactly. I see (recognize, identify) the Queen Esther in a woman who sells olives, I see the sly Jacob in an enterprising owner of a cockery shop, and I see Deborah the prophet in my friend’s Grandmother, and in the owner of  the apartment that we rent I see the king Ahav. This felling is very interesting. All my ancestors, I mean Abraham, Isaac , and Jacob, and all their descendants, were all normal people. In their outward  appearance they rather didn’t look like Scandinavians or American cowboys, but forsure they and and our neighbor Eheskeil  or Rachel who lives in the next building , were as like as two peas.