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Emuna Elon


Born
in Jerusalem, Israel
April 28, 1955


Emuna Elon (Hebrew: אמונה אלון) was born in 1955 in Jerusalem, the daughter of rabbi and professor Pinchas Hacohen Peli and his wife Pnina. She was raised in Jerusalem and New York City. While in New York, Elon attended the High School of Music and Art, in New York City. She lived for many years in the Israeli settlement of Beit El, and then in Rehavia neighborhood of Jerusalem. She was married to Binyamin Elon, a rabbi and former Knesset member, and is the mother of six children, One of her sons, Ori Elon, is a writer and filmmaker.

She teaches Judaism, Hassidism and Hebrew literature, and has served as advisor to the Prime Minister on the status of Israeli women. From 1991 to 2005, she wrote a column in Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel's largest n ...more

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“In order to hand me over she had to detach herself from herself, and afterward she never managed to get back inside herself and continued, long after the war ended, living outside herself and observing her life without any emotion.”
― emuna elon, House On Endless Waters
tags: amsterdam, choice, emotion, jewish, mother, wwii
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“what would happen here. But you still didn’t believe that they might possibly arrest you, you didn’t believe that you’d be taken from your home and imprisoned in a camp. No, not in Holland.”
― Emuna Elon, House on Endless Waters
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“On the day that Yoel rose from the seven days of sitting shiva for his mother and went out of his house, he realized he didn’t know how to walk in a world in which his mother was no longer present.”
― Emuna Elon, House on Endless Waters
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