The poems include touchingly
romantic and sad expressions of Steffi's youthful idealism and more recent
humorous epistles. "My first Year in Eretz Israel" picks up the story
where her previous book Jewish Girl in the Weimar Republic ends, with Steffi's
arrival in 1934 at what was then Palestine. It is a lively description of the
Jewish agricultural settlers who came to Palestine in the early 1930's.
"The Sekilaridis House" describes...