Documented Life     An Autodocumentary     Miles Hochstein



Above: The ID card photo above is probably from October of 1985, around the beginning of the 1985-86 academic year

In the year and a half following my experience at the Technion (all of 1985, and the first half of 1986), I struggled to regain my footing and direction. I remember these months as hard times.

I worked in a book store, Steimatsky's on Rehov Melekh George in downtown Jerusalem, enrolled in a few classes (a business program) at Hebrew University, and tried to figure out what to do with my life.

Above: The picture is on a document dated to the 11th of September, 1985, and would have been taken a month or so earlier than the picture above. The need for a haircut is painfully evident.

 

In this period, I lived first in Talpiot Mizrach, then in Katamon Vav.and then later, possibly not until 1986, in Rehavia, on Derek Aza, where I shared an apartment with three other bachelors, all religious in varying degrees, as I slowly and quietly and privately, degree by gradual degree, lost my religion.

 

 

Was this really my home?