When Leah Goldberg was 8 years old she started learning Hebrew in Kaunus (Kovno) Lithuania, and after only six months she learned the language! She turned to be the first Hebrew secular female poet: she had translated poetry and plays and was a literature professor in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She was among the first students to learn Hebrew as a modern language and used it to express daily life experience and ventures: she unlocked the Hebrew that was chained in little rooms ( known as cheder חדר) and synagogues and was preserved for men and used it like a bicycle, a train, a boat and finally as silvery airplane wings to wander with it in the blue sky above, ignoring the heavy gravity below. Among her writings were wonderful books for children. One of them is known as:... Read More