Pumpkinflowers (21 page)

MATTI FRIEDMAN is the author of
The Aleppo Codex,
which won the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize, the ALA Sophie Brody Medal, and other awards. A former correspondent for the Associated Press, his reporting has taken him from Israel to Morocco, Lebanon, the Caucasus, and Washington, D.C. His work has appeared in the
Wall Street Journal,
the
Atlantic,
the
New York Times, Tablet,
and other publications. He was born in Toronto and lives in Jerusalem. Visit him online at
mattifriedman.com
. (Author photo by Sebastian Sheiner.)

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The excerpt from John Prine's “Angel from Montgomery” appears here with the permission of Alfred Music.

Permission to include part of Be'eri Hazak's poem “Lord of the Universe” was granted by the author's brother, the poet Yehiel Hazak. Translation by the author.

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