Summer Story,
De Groene Amsterdammer,
2020
My Grandmother, the Pirate
I can see Ella my 4-year-old daughter through the viewfinder of my new camera: she’s drawing at the other side of the kitchen table in our Amsterdam home. I press record and ask her in Hebrew. “Ella, are you Dutch?” “Yes”, she answers in Dutch while nodding her blonde curly head. “And are you Israeli?”, I continue in Hebrew. “No, you are Israeli”, she points at me. “Are you Jewish?” She stops drawing and looks int …
