"No one moves until all the bread has been distributed. Only then do you swallow—not noticing, or at least pretending not to notice, that the very last portion, the one Mother has left for herself, is smaller than anyone else’s. No one mentions it—that’s the way it is with mothers."
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Yenta Mash
1922 – 2013
Yenta Mash (1922-2013) was a Yiddish language writer. She grew up in the region of south central Europe now known as Moldova, before being deported to Siberia in 1941. She started writing after moving to Israel in 1977.
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