I have read with interest the writings of David Hayat. Some have appeared in a variety of periodicals, some are still in manuscript form. They are also of different genres: stories, chronicles, memoirs.
I have found in them much worthwhile material, both from the artistic view-point and its historical value. David Hayat has a sharp eye, and is an acute observer of people and things, and he has seen a lot and been through a lot. The Jewish fate in our generation has tossed him from one situation to another from country to country and from one experience to another.
What moulds his writings into an artistic-historical document is to a large extent the warmth of his feeling.
David Hayat carries on his road of life and also in his spirit a Jewish devotion of generation which suffered much, but which remained with a Jewish backbone and with a deep attachment to our people and its values.
David Hayat’s writings are undoubtedly and important contribution towards an awareness of the inner world of the Jewish individual of our time.
Heschel Klopfish
Jerusalem, 28 Tishrei
22.10.1995
