Look and Listen

Biography

I was born and raised in South Africa, lived on a kibbutz in Israel for five years before moving to London. I was married for twenty years, fathered three children and got divorced. After remarrying I returned to Israel and now live in the Jerusalem hills, where I have my pottery studio. A few years ago I decided to resurrect the journal I kept during the time of my divorce. The journal, a chronicle of the breakup of my marriage and recovery, became my book BREAKUP: enduring divorce.

Inspiration

In July 2005, while sitting on the veranda of my pottery studio in the Jerusalem hills, the thought crossed my mind that my life story was encapsulated in an object that hung behind the studio door – a sweater. A green jersey as I like to call it. That jersey was knitted for me when I was a teenager in South Africa in the early sixties. Since that time I have lugged it across three continents and worn it for almost fifty years. The jersey provided me with the inspiration to resurrect my journal, at the time still in my friend's garage in London, as a book.