{"product_id":"on-money-on-old-age-on-death-etc-by-julia-wiener-hebrew-poetry-book","title":"On Money, On Old Age, On Death etc. By Julia Wiener Hebrew Poetry Book","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003eJulia Wiener's description of herself is a poem in itself, as spare and clear as the rest of her verse:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: vertical-align: baseline color: rgb background-color:\u003eBorn in Moscow, the former USSR. \u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e\n\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: vertical-align: baseline color: rgb background-color:\u003eIt was so long ago\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: vertical-align: baseline color: rgb background-color:\u003ethat it's not worth remembering.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: vertical-align: baseline color: rgb background-color:\u003eGraduate of the State Film School, a scriptwriter.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: vertical-align: baseline color: rgb background-color:\u003eImmigrated to Israel in 1971.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: vertical-align: baseline color: rgb background-color:\u003eEarns her living alternately\u003cbr\u003eas a scriptwriter and a literary translator.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: vertical-align: baseline color: rgb background-color:\u003ePublishes verse and prose in Moscow\u003cbr\u003eand in Russian-language magazines in Israel; \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: vertical-align: baseline color: rgb background-color:\u003esome poetry has been translated and published in Hebrew.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: vertical-align: baseline color: rgb background-color:\u003eLives in Jerusalem.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003eWiener is best known for a long poem about money that she asked us not to upload here. It is, however, so universally appealing that we cannot resist sharing the opening stanza:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: vertical-align: baseline color: rgb background-color:\u003eI think all the time about money\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: vertical-align: baseline color: rgb background-color:\u003ethat I don't have enough money\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: vertical-align: baseline color: rgb background-color:\u003ethat I have very little money\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: vertical-align: baseline color: rgb background-color:\u003ethat I'll be left without money\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: vertical-align: baseline color: rgb background-color:\u003eI don't know where the money will come from\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: vertical-align: baseline color: rgb background-color:\u003eI don't know where the money goes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: vertical-align: baseline color: rgb background-color:\u003ehow I spend it\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: vertical-align: baseline color: rgb background-color:\u003ehow I spend my days\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: vertical-align: baseline color: rgb background-color:\u003eI spend them trying to get some money\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003eCan poetry have an effect on Israeli society? It would seem that Julia Wiener's does.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003eHer money poem was first published in an edition of the Israeli journal \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: vertical-align: baseline color: rgb background-color:\u003eEretz Aheret\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e on the subject of Israeli poverty. Tali Goldshmid, reviewing the journal in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: vertical-align: baseline color: rgb background-color:\u003eHaaretz\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e, noted that \"The Russian-born poet Julia Weiner's provocative voice describes her world as crushed under the steamroller of poverty. The delicate distaste for dealing openly with money because there are more important things in the world is presented by Weiner as the hypocrisy typical of those whose pockets are not pinched:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003eyour country your family all that is sacred\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003egod love freedom the future of the mankind\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e(at the store they won't give me credit of any kind)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003elove thy neighbor give him the shirt off your back\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e(all my postdated cheques are coming back)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003efrom Zion will come forth a heavenly light\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e(I can't live with a blocked toilet another night)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e [Trans. Julia Wiener]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\"Because as we all well know, only if one has money 'does that give [you] the right to look people straight in the eye \/ and to take an equal part in the fate of the State of Israel,'\" Goldshmid wrote.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e           \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003eThe poem had wide-reaching effects, in particular on women. According to blogger Hanna Beit Halahmi, \"I first encountered Julia Weiner's poetry when I was finally prepared to talk to myself about money. Ever since, I make a point of reading aloud passages from her 'Money Poem' at the end of every money workshop I give in coaching courses and courses about initiatives by and the advancement of women. There I teach both myself (over and over) and others, men and women, that money is an essential item not a means, that money is one of two essentials of the patriarchal society in which we live (the other is sex) [. . .]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ff-spinoza-web-pro, Georgia, \" times new roman serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\"As a woman, I add to this the text [Deuteronomy 17:17] proscribing kings of Israel from taking too many wives, horses and silver and gold [. . .] When I ask [course participants] whether love equals money, they answer: Of course not. [Love is] pure feeling. But is it? I ask, how many cross-class marriages do you know? [. . .] I'm still far from convincing them. I know. But thinking is at least a start.\"\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"IsraelBookShop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42254018543781,"sku":"965-407-406-0","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0558\/8860\/9445\/files\/965-407-406-0.jpg?v=1725093337","url":"https:\/\/www.israelbookshop.com\/products\/on-money-on-old-age-on-death-etc-by-julia-wiener-hebrew-poetry-book","provider":"IsraelBookShop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}