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They have given you French names
and made you captive, my rugged
troublesome compatriots;
your splendid beards, are epicene,
plaster white
and your angers
unclothed with Palestinian hills quite lost…
Contributor:
Irving Layton
Places:
Montreal, Canada
Date:
1956
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Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
Places:
Indianapolis, United States of America
Date:
1992
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Café Sport is another scene. A scene, because that is where the artists and intellectuals go to be seen. Taking part is what matters, not winning. It is like sport, which is where the café got its…
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Elfriede Jelinek
Places:
Reinbek, West Germany
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1980
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Many years later, in London, Father was once again revealed to me in that long-ago evening in Ramat Poriya, sitting on the fence with the Kinnereth lying like a carcass behind him, but this time the…
Contributor:
Haim Be’er
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1998
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Sieniawa, Austrian Empire
(Sieniawa, Poland)
Date:
1855
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Nachman ha-Kohen Bialsker
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Bielsk, Russian Empire
(Bielsk Podlaski, Poland)
Date:
1862
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[ . . . ] I have always felt it as a particular honor that a man of such outstanding importance as Theodor Herzl was the first to champion me publicly from his exposed and therefore responsible…
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Stefan Zweig
Places:
London, United Kingdom
(Petrópolis, Brazil)
Date:
1942
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I lived, but as for living I was shiftless in my life,
knew always I’d be buried here when all was done,
that year layers itself upon year, clod on clod, stone on stone,
that in the chill and wormy…
Contributor:
Miklós Radnóti
Places:
Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1937
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The sunset grew bold: it insisted on staying
In the Red Sea at night, when the innocent pink
Young fawns delicately make their way
Downhill to the palace of water to drink.
They leave their silken…
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Abraham Sutzkever
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1949
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The light passes through the curtain and brightens it, spreading a dull glow over the night-table and drawing a single shining line over the edge of the ashtray. The woman’s one eye follows it until…
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Youval Shimoni
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1990