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This is the second volume, in Hebrew, of Seashell Queen (מלכת הקונכייה), Zipora Cochavi-Rainey's three-volume biography of the Israeli writer Naomi Frankel. The Hebrew title of this volume is זריחה ושקיעה (Sunrise and Sunset).
In this volume the young Frankel, raised in an assimilated German Jewish family, makes her life in the Land of Israel. She joins Kibbutz Beit Alfa and finds that she does not fit easily into the collective. She studies at the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus, where she attends the Kabbalah lectures of Professor Gershom Scholem, and the story carries on into the War of Independence in 1948.
Cochavi-Rainey, a scholar of the Hebrew language, met Frankel in 1974 and remained her friend until the writer's death in 2009. Published by Gefen in 2013, this paperback is for readers of Hebrew literature, biography and the history of the kibbutz and the early state.