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What is the place of the idolatry that is reflected in the Bible?
This idolatry is not a representation perverted for the sake of polemic; nor is it an artificial…
Contributor:
Yehezkel Kaufmann
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Atlanta, United States of America
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1951
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And in that drowning instant
as the water heightened over me
it suddenly did come to pass
my preterite eternity
the image of myself intent
on several freedoms
fading to
myself in yellowed Basle…
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A. M. Klein
Places:
Philadelphia, United States of America
(Montreal, Canada)
Date:
1943
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Lord, I have seen too much for one who sat
In quiet at his window’s luminous eye
And puzzled over house and street and sky,
Safe only in the narrowest habitat;
Who studies peace as if the world were…
Contributor:
Karl Shapiro
Places:
New York City, New Guinea
(New Guinea, Indonesia)
Date:
1943
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You will come back.
You will, with God’s help, come back
With a far-off, alien look.
(I’m preparing myself,
I already know,
I’ve seen how they come back.)
You will sit in your regular chair, unsure
A…
Contributor:
Malka Heifetz Tussman
Places:
Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1944
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The outstanding feature of the religious situation in America today is the pervasiveness of religious self-identification along the tripartite scheme of Protestant, Catholic, Jew. From the “land of…
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Will Herberg
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1955
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Midrash [ . . . ] is not mere reference to the past: it is the enlistment of the past in the service of the present. Even more specifically, it is a reinsertion into the present of the original divine…
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Judah Goldin
Places:
New Haven, United States of America
Date:
1965
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The American Jewish community is only beginning to come to terms with the meaning of this prostitution of Judaism to the status quo, and it is doing so…
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James A. Sleeper
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1971
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The sea
tore a rib from its side
and said:
Go! Lie down there, be
a sign that I
am great and mighty.
Go
be a sign.
The canal
lies at my window,
speechless.
What can be sadder
than water
without…
Contributor:
Malka Heifetz Tussman
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1965
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Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
Places:
Indianapolis, United States of America
Date:
1992
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Are we who are in this exile the people of Israel, that is, the worshipers of the God of Israel . . . essentially . . . or in . . . name only? . . . For it seems to me that we are not the people of…
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Eliezer Eilburg
Places:
Cincinnati, Habsburg Empire
(Moravia, Czech Republic)
Date:
1575