Sigal Naor Perelman (b. 1968) is a literary scholar and editor, founder and co-director of the Derech Ruach organization for the promotion of the study of the humanities in Israel, and teaches in the Department of Jewish History at Haifa University. She has published two research books on Natan Zach and Noah Stern. Her first volume of poetry, Machluta, was published in 2020.
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A Poem for Nitzan
I smuggled you across the border, that no hand
of those who find joy in their labor might touch you
no hand of those dealing
in blood,
t…