What
better combination of small luxuries than a fresh green salad with mushrooms
and mustard dressing, books to leaf through or read -- and (it gets even
better) a real live poet reading from his or her works? Yes, you can have
it all -- in downtown Jerusalem. Cafe Tmol Shilshom -- Only Yesterday
-- which takes its name from the Nobel Laureate, S.Y. Agnon's book of the
same name, is a literary meeting place.
In this bookstore-cafe-restaurant,
proprietor David Ehrlich, instituted poetry readings by Israeli poets, and
poets from other countries. The list of authors and poets who visit Tmol
Shilshom and hold literary events here, reads like the who's who of Israeli
authors.
Yehuda
Amichai, who passed away in December, and was considered Israel's poet
laureate, frequented Tmol Shilshom. He had a favorite chair from which
he read his poems.
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At first a private dwelling and then
a tailor shop, the cafe is located up a steep flight of stairs in a stone
building typical of the area.
Books of poetry by Yehuda Amichai
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