leon gork tour guideMay 303 minMy loving motherSin for me meant doing something bad to a woman. Theft held no attraction for me. I never longed to own something belonging to someone...
leon gork tour guideMay 274 minBack to school"Put your child back in school", my old uncle Louie, looking through half-shut eyes, filled with smoke, hurled this command, at his...
leon gork tour guideMay 154 minChoosing the right path in lifeIn the eyes of my parents, I was a strange boy. When vacation time came around I was out looking for work while my friends sunbathed at...
leon gork tour guideMay 145 minMeeting disappointments head onI'd started with a bag full of marbles and ended with two. I kicked my feet against the wall, shifting my last two glass pebbles from one...
leon gork tour guideMar 42 minKrugersdorp JewsDavid Super calls himself Dovid, the way David is pronounced in Yiddish, the language spoken in Eastern Europe, where Jews had lived for...
leon gork tour guideMar 44 minGoing to Heaven.The first time in my life that I set eyes on a dead human being was a month ago in Toronto. Raymond’s wife had told me he was in the...
leon gork tour guideOct 23, 20215 minMy Father's StoryThis story just goes to show that we are products of history, which can’t be changed. It is what it is and all that we can do is accept...
leon gork tour guideOct 9, 20213 minGuilt and Self-pityI released the handbrake of the brand new Hudson. The sensation of holding the steering wheel, like dad, as the vehicle rolled backward,...
leon gork tour guideAug 15, 20215 minMy Life 3 Learning and Wits UniversityI passed Matric. Successful me, from now on smooth sailing, the world at my feet, like a sweet apple waiting for me to take a bite. No...
leon gork tour guideAug 9, 20214 minEmbattled EgosThe daily order of events took an ominously different turn after I began walking, my knapsack on my back, I’d left out my task of...
leon gork tour guideJul 30, 20212 minDudu (David) the puncturemacher.Thousands of kilometres and I’d never had a puncture, thanks to Eli. He’d checked my tyres for donkeys years. One day his mother died....
leon gork tour guideJul 30, 20214 minThe PlumberJack Holzman plumbers and plumbing supplies, up there in Human Str. on the ground floor of the building better known to the gambling...
leon gork tour guideJul 4, 20212 minPlaygrounds Jerusalem Tel AvivAt long last Ariel and Lilach turned up with Ophir and Alon. Ariel had said they’d be here at 2 and now it was close to 5. I never give...
leon gork tour guideJul 4, 20212 minLandscape by NogaThe big room one sees on entering our front door is divided into two, first comes the dining area then the living room. My six year old...
leon gork tour guideJun 24, 20212 minListening to the conversationI could only assume from the look on the faces of my wife and children that they were saying something interesting to each other. We were...
leon gork tour guideJun 24, 20212 minCovid InsightLife was slowly returning to normal, after a year of lockdowns, wearing masks, not meeting with large groups of people. Each day Etti was...
leon gork tour guideMay 2, 20212 minBreaking the RuleMy search for shortcuts had begun at a very young age. You may think it absurd, but I think it began already when I was a baby sucking on...
leon gork tour guideMay 1, 20215 minAn elegant Krugersdorp FamilyThe Katzen family was unbelievable, among the social circles of Krugersdorp that I was familiar with. I think it's because they never...
leon gork tour guideNov 24, 20202 minCovid TimesFor Etti and I, Covid means being at home together for a long time. There’s no work to go to for either of us. We have a fair division of la
leon gork tour guideNov 21, 20205 minPetah Tikvah Memorial ParkBring me Cappuccino (hafuch in Hebrew). He lowered his mask, put the opening of the cover to his lips, no coffee came out.