The poems include touchingly romantic and sad expressions of Steffis 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 Steffis 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 1930s. The Sekilaridis House describes Steffis marriage to a Roman Catholic Armenian and their adventures in t