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Day unto day bequeaths its fading sun,
and night after night laments for night.
Summer after summer is gathered in fall
and the world in its sorrow gives song.
Tomorrow we’ll die, the word in us…
Contributor:
Avraham Ben-Yitzhak
Places:
Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1917
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Mendele the bookpeddler says: Whenever a Jew comes to a journey’s end, he feels as if his hips are breaking, his back aching, and his knees shaking from being crushed and squeezed…
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Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1903–1912
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All discussions pertaining to the Jews must begin with some very gloomy observations. The Jews are, everywhere, a minority group, and it is a particular misfortune these days to be a minority group in…
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Isaac Rosenfeld
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1944
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Deeply respected Niger,
I ask you to endure me in Russian.
I want to express to you my happiness that we are approaching the time of the new Jewish book, a book created with love towards [the thing]…
Contributor:
El Lissitzky
Places:
Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1918
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Edited by David Frishman and published by Stybel
Contributor:
Avraham Stybel
Places:
Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1918
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In three acts by the famous author Yitsḥak Katzenelson.
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Karmel, a rich Jewish timber merchant Mr. Kharaz
Yoḥanan, his son Mr. Mikhalesko
Bill, a gypsy captain Mr. Landau
Tarta, an old…
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Unknown
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1917
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The puritanically strict observance of the closing hour in London, the lack of continental-style coffee-houses, and perhaps also the isolated situation of the by no means untroubled British Isles may…
Contributor:
Egon Erwin Kisch
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1924
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He came across the meadows towards the sunset, his upturned face pushed forwards catching the light, and glowing also with another radiance than the rich, reflected glory of the heavens.
A curious…
Contributor:
Amy Levy
Places:
London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1889
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The problem of creating a body of translated literature in Yiddish is very important and must be solved systematically. This serves the interests of our original [Yiddish] literature best.
[I will…
Contributor:
Moyshe Litvakov
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1918–1919