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My Lover and Companion is Naomi Frenkel's Hebrew novel דודי ורעי (Dodi VeRe'i), first published by Am Oved in 1973. At its center are the lives and loves of two generations, set against the background of the kibbutz, Jerusalem and the War of Attrition.
Written in fluent language, with narrative power and a strong sense of tragic irony, the novel traces a complex web of relationships among characters who look to one another for warmth and for personal fulfillment. The story of a young woman from a kibbutz, it was adapted as a television film in 1975, and the song "Kmo Tzemach Bar" was written for it.
Frenkel was born in Germany in 1918 and escaped the Nazis as a child in 1933. She became one of Israel's well-known novelists, best remembered for her trilogy Shaul and Yohanna.