{"id":2487,"date":"2012-08-11T23:00:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T20:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2013-02-05T05:23:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T03:23:56","slug":"where-do-i-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/where-do-i-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Where do I begin?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I grew up in Ness Ziona <\/a><\/span>as the\u00a0fifth generation to my ancestors Ruben Lehrer and his wife Feige Feinstein. In the back of my child’s mind, the world began with them. My first writing\u00a0as I learned the craft, was the history of my family and the Eygptians as one related\u00a0story. [A pit\u00a0of memory<\/a>]<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

Ruben Lehrer and Feige were the first Jewish settlers, who were a bee keepers. They also\u00a0grew orange groves. He was very religious, and came to live in this hard place, with his family, swapping his land in Russia with a German guy who gave him his land “Near Jerusalem.” 1882<\/h3>\n

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Ruben Lehrer and his wife Faige on donkeys, Ness Ziona, Israel<\/p>\n

I grew up on contradicting stories about this tribe of hard-working Zionists. I\u00a0remember my uncle Isaac Patchornik citing Ruben Lehrer to me: “We must accept that the Arabs are a part of the land and sky, and we need to get along with them.” I started to grasp\u00a0that even though we have thousands\u00a0 years of historical memory, this actual place was inhibited by others when “we” were not here.<\/h3>\n

Ruben Lehrer was deeply respected by\u00a0them. There is a family story saying\u00a0 that when there was a fled,\u00a0 an unknown\u00a0huge black Sudan origin man knocked on the door\u00a0in the middle of night and gave him five sacs of wheat to keep for him. He never came back.<\/h3>\n

We grew up knowing\u00a0it was a present from the Arab neighbours who shared their own wheat and saved the family life.<\/h3>\n

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When I was in high school, in the 70es, a young woman who was a volunteer in a kibbutz heard a radio talk with my father Prof. Abraham Patchornik<\/a><\/span>. She knocked on my uncles door and in a special accent, said that her name in Paciornik. \u00a0She come from Curitiba- Brazil.<\/h3>\n

We found parallel family members at the other side of the world- living in Brazil Curitiba. A dubble family tree mirroring the same names.<\/h3>\n

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Our tiny village was exposed to a wider world; We learned\u00a0that Ruben Lehrer- Patchornik, had a brother who left Russia to south America and had a huge family.<\/h3>\n

Around that time I was reading\u00a0 One Hundred Years of Solitude <\/em>by Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez. As in the legendary book, I found bizarre connections between names and professions on both sides of the world. I especially liked the connection between\u00a0his opening story about the ice miracle, and my mother buying an enormous deep freezer as we came back from the States to Israel after my fathers\u00a0 sabbatical.<\/h3>\n

The village\u00a0 women came to see the miracle of such a massive\u00a0unit that can contain an entire cow!<\/h3>\n

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Table of finds <\/strong><\/em>from Tel-Nona<\/a><\/span>, 2000, an imaginary, conceptual\u00a0mound I dig in. I am the finds,\u00a0 and the digger. Trying to invent a history- my history concerning all cultures living here on this land in the past and in the present, in\u00a0is a mending-healing process<\/a><\/span>.<\/h3>\n

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This post is dedicated warmly to the Patchornick\/Paciornik\/Shulman\u00a0family in Brazil and around the globe. We all might have been\u00a0 speaking Russian and living there unless history\u00a0took\u00a0its own agenda.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Where do I begin 2<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I grew up in Ness Ziona as the\u00a0fifth generation to my ancestors Ruben Lehrer and his wife Feige Feinstein. In the back of my child’s mind, the world began with them. My first writing\u00a0as I learned the craft, was the history of my family and the Eygptians as one related\u00a0story. [A pit\u00a0of memory] Ruben Lehrer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,1,432],"tags":[422,425,421,424,447],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}