August 20, 2009 – The Literary Scene – a preliminary post

When I first began to meet writers in Israel, in the 70′s, I would occasionally go to Cafe Stern on Dizengoff Street on Friday afternoons. Sometimes I would meet Dalia Ravikovich or Yona Wollach or Maya Bejerano or some of the other poets. It was Gabriel Moked’s court, and many of the major decisions about literature were made then and there. Now he meets people on Thursday afternoons at Cafe Libra and the situation is still the same, even though most of the people have changed.