Barukh Hyman Hidvegi, at The Blogs

Mar 24, 2022, 4:55 PM

…barukh smiled much more his eyes sparkled meekly and sort of he was generally more awed by living in israel by being blessed to be able to live in israel all native israelis could see right away that he was a tourist or a new immigrant his steps were light watchful cautious if...

Mar 17, 2022, 11:45 AM

What have I done

it happened in 2016 in eilat close to the military checkpoint at the entrance to the town perhaps barukh can’t remember exactly it was the most heart-rending moment of the aliyah one day after barukh and his family arrived in israel one day after they left hungary behind the country that fred and L the boys...

Mar 10, 2022, 11:07 PM

Barukh’s first Israeli dead

it happened when barukh and fred went shopping to the small store in be’er ora for the first time after they’d moved there from elifaz the tiniest kibbutz on earth be’er ora with its thousand residents and small village store seemed like a metropolis in the middle of nowhere barukh and fred talked to each...

Mar 3, 2022, 5:35 PM

how to handle a war?

since the first shots were fired in ukraine barukh has been constantly thinking about his former classmates the ukrainians and the russians from the ulpan those with whom five years ago barukh started his hebrew studies in the building of the yotvata council on the eighth of...

Feb 24, 2022, 11:25 PM

savages in vienna

but it is the tasty part! explains hassan from behind the counter to the decent viennese lady who is shifting her weight from one foot to the other trying to find her bearings in the middle eastern buffet on mariahilferstraße as she attempts to order shwarma who knows for...

Feb 17, 2022, 10:26 PM

the big house on zója street

papa told barukh many times how when had been a child he often had to stay at home in the big house on zója street alone while his parents barukh’s grandfather and grandmother left to make some money to buy something to sell something after the war after the holocaust during soviet occupation at...

Feb 10, 2022, 9:33 AM

apartheid or what you want

barukh is always pissed whenever british or american freedom fighters refer to israel as an apartheid state it irritates him that they think they know what israelis are like that without ever having been to israel or lived in israel or btw having ever lived anywhere else but in anglo-saxon slash western countries they conclude that all israelis women men and children behave...

Feb 3, 2022, 10:21 AM

i wish i could live closed eyes

i wish i could live with closed eyes wouldn’t see the rockets tearing through the sky over tel aviv only the peaceful coolness chilling on the beach clubs and vegan restaurants i wish i wouldn’t see religious jews lynching arabs on israeli streets religious jews who pray from the same siddur to the same sweet...

Jan 27, 2022, 1:09 PM

How to become an Israeli poet?

it is thursday afternoon on the face of it all you can see is barukh fidgeting with his phone looking at whatsapp he is searching for israeli people on his contact list he can send to the link to his poem published on the times of israel it’s not...

Jan 20, 2022, 9:40 AM

born israeli

a wise person once said that the worst possible advice a native israeli can be given is be yourself! because native israelis had better not be themselves khalilah! god forbid! they are already too loud gesticulate too much complain protest and grumble too much they are too intense too absorbed too unruly all in all too much already! barukh was anxious five years ago as...

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a wandering aramean poet / born in hungary / living in israel / longing for a home / and peace / outside and inside // he writes about his new life / and his old one / his adhd and asd / his adonayush / and war and coexistence / in israel / in the middle east / and in the world // hundreds of his poems are available in hungarian / and in a weekly increasing number also in english // “self-appointed poet” (“önjelölt költő”) / his first book of poems / was published in budapest in 2021 / "twelve points of barukh" ("barukh tizenkét pontja") his second book was published in 2022 // he lives in the kurdish suburbs of jerusalem / with his wife and two sons

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