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When we consider the quotidian life of our society, it is impossible to ignore the phenomenon of “avoidance”; namely, it seems that the public at large is unwilling to think too much about the…
Contributor:
Fishel Schneersohn
Places:
Kibbutz Hulda, Mandate Palestine
(Huldah, Israel)
Date:
1943
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The heart is prized as the human body’s noblest and most important organ, for it is the first to feel the pain which any other part of the body…
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Samuel Usque
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Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara
(Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1553
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There will be a concert of an excellent music ensemble at the Aynalı Gazino next to Taksim Garden in Beyoğlu, from the first day of the holy Ramadan Feast and every Friday, Saturday…
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Udi Misirli Ibrahim Efendi
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(Tunis, Tunisia)
Date:
1909
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So condolence visits is what they’re here for,
sitting around at the Holocaust Memorial, putting on a serious face
at the Wailing Wall,
laughing behind heavy curtains in hotel rooms.
They get…
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Yehuda Amichai
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1974
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The most terrible thing of all, somehow, was that at Brzezinka the sun was bright and warm, the rows of graceful poplars were lovely to look upon and on the grass near the gates children played.
It…
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A. M. Rosenthal
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1958
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Mr. Beringer, whose son
fell at the Canal that strangers dug
so ships could cross the desert,
crosses my path at Jaffa Gate.
He has grown very thin, has lost
the weight of his son.
That’s why he…
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Yehuda Amichai
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1974
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Berl Katznelson did much to foster the awareness of “Yizkor” and its literature in the twenty years after Tel Hai, through an explicit reference to the chain of Jewish martyrology and heroism and a…
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Emanuel Sivan
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1991
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Far, far from the paved roads and broad ways, far, far from the ordinary shtetls, stood isolated villages that had a different sky over them and a different sun.
The God of heaven in His mercy made…
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Hillel Zeitlin
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1919
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But who emptied your shoes of sand
When you had to get up, to die?
The sand which Israel gathered,
Its nomad sand?
Burning Sinai sand,
Mingled with throats of nightingales,
Mingled with wings of…
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Nelly Sachs
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
(Stockholm, Sweden)
Date:
1947