Elisha Appears Again
An exclusive English translation of Yonat Rum's tale of loss, survival and memory, winner of Haaretz newspaper's 2018 short story contest.
Yonat Rum
Yonat Rum is the author of Nahoobash (Kinneret, Zmora, Dvir, 2019), which won the Israeli Ministry of Culture’s prize for young writers. “Elisha Appears Again” was her first story to be published, winning the Ha’aretz Short Story Competition in 2018. She is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.