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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
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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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On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics
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The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature
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A Destroyed Garden: selected stories and seven poems
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