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Tiberias, Land of Israel (Tiberias, Israel)
Date:
ca. 925
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The little lightning bolt of Yemen flashed, despite the overwhelming darkness,
Spurring on sheets of dewy rain to the joy of mankind,
The rivers of Paradise are streams, watering the roses and the…
Contributor:
Shalem Shabazi
Places:
Taiz, Yemeni Zaidi State (Taiz, Yemen)
Date:
ca. 1679/80
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Love for an honored woman illuminates my mind’s eye and my imagination,
While I praise her beauty, for she comforts me in my exile.
My soul is like a lone bird and each night she greets the face of…
Contributor:
Shalem Shabazi
Places:
Taiz, Yemeni Zaidi State (Taiz, Yemen)
Date:
ca. 1679/80
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Hyacinth and mallow was I to God: lifelong
Only this pure sun fills, for each, the earth,
And an angel urges: “Bud, child, and bring forth
Among the biting thorns, your festive song.”
The damp…
Contributor:
Saul Tschernikovsky
Places:
Odessa, Russian SFSR (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1919
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After you, the killed of the Ukraine;
After you, butchered
In a mound in Gorodishche,
The Dnieper town . . .
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No! Heavenly tallow, don’t lick my gummy beards.
Out of my mouth’s brown streams…
Contributor:
Peretz Markish
Places:
Kyiv, Russian SFSR (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1921
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With the holy poem
clenched between my teeth,
I set forth alone
from that wolf-cave, my home,
to roam
street after street
like a wolf
with his solitary bone.
There is prey enough in the street
to…
Contributor:
H. Leivick
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1922
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Oh my God, my God,
Mighty One of my existence,
have mercy on Your lost son
who has wandered from the ancestral path
and, exiled to cold and unfamiliar climes,
sought to be close to You,
but has not…
Contributor:
Hillel Bavli
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1923
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Is it any wonder that the sick are so pure and tender,
gazing across vast distances, seeing things that no one else does,
staying up at night, and smiling in the darkness,
as they caress their beds…
Contributor:
Yisroel Shtern
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1923
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What makes a book like this more than just a collection of excerpts, strung together interchangeably? What makes it a book? If I were to say it had been a matter of selection, who would venture to…
Contributor:
S. Y. Agnon
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1959
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At home I have a blue piano,
I, who cannot play a note.
It stands in the gloom of the cellar door,
now that the world has grown coarse.
The four hands of the stars play there
—the moonwife sang…
Contributor:
Else Lasker-Schüler
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1943