Devorah Baron

Her father, a rabbi, allowed her to attend the same Hebrew classes as boys, which was highly exceptional for the time, although she had to sit in the screened women’s area of the synagogue.

In 1910, after her father’s death and later the destruction of her village in a pogrom, she immigrated to Palestine, settling in Neve Tzedek, a neighborhood the on outskirts of Jaffa that became part of Tel Aviv in 1909.

Along with other Jews in Palestine, they were deported to Egypt by the Ottoman government,[4] but returned after the establishment of the British Mandate after the First World War.

"[6] During this period she remained intellectually sharp and continued to write, composing "a group of stories depicting the world as seen through the window of an 'invalid's room' ("Be-Lev ha-Kerakh," in Parashiyyot)".

[7] Rachel Shazar notes that her stories, "animated by a deep empathy for the weak and the innocent," reflect profound learning: "No other woman writer in Israel was as familiar with the sources of Judaism as Devorah Baron.