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A calm summer night. On the horizon loom, very black, the famous woods on the tree trunks of which our ancestors are said to have carved a record of the tractates of the Talmud they had…
Contributor:
Y. L. Peretz
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Tomaszow, Russian Empire (Tomaszów County, Poland)
Date:
1890
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“The story began in the year . . .”
But he forgot which year it was, so you must make do without it.
“It happened towards the end of Elul, when people say slikhes, penitential prayers. A town is a…
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Y. L. Peretz
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1899
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From the cradle to the grave,
A heavy burden crushes us . . .
Constrains the mind, destroys our strength,
Wreathes our brow with thorns . . .
And yet, with amazing power
Our lips run along the…
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Aleksander Kraushar
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Russian Empire (Poland, Poland)
Date:
1890
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From the silence of the night I heard a clamor,
Like the clank of chains of bondage, the sound of linked fetters
Jangling each other—
The heavens opened,
And suddenly a great flood of light burst…
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David Frishman
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1896
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I walked solitary on my way
And reveled alone in my holiday,
Drunken from the wine of my illusions,
From the luster of my delusions;
I created blinding suns
From every shining dew drop,
I fashioned…
Contributor:
David Shimoni
Places:
Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Jaffa, Israel)
Date:
1910
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Tunis, Rosh Ḥodesh Adar 5648
When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, for they commit falsehood; and the thief enters in, and the troop of…
Contributor:
Shalom Flāḥ
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Tunis, French Protectorate of Tunisia (Tunis, Tunisia)
Date:
1888
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For twenty-two years I have been one of the parnasim [board members] and leaders of this magnificent congregation, the city of Lwów; my heart has moved me to do good work in memory of the generations…
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Solomon Buber
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Lwow, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
1894
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Without any intent to praise myself inappropriately, but rather to take note that perseverance and good will helps to achieve results, I want to emphasize that, without causing any…
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Aleksander Kraushar
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Kraków, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1895
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One may think about Zionism as one wishes: one may consider it an aberration or an idea that has a claim on the future; one may regard it from the heights of a fantastical cosmopolitanism as a…
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Osias Thon
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Russian Empire (Poland, Poland)
Date:
1896
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“I am the Lord your God” [the first of the 10 commandments, namely, to believe in God] precedes [the second commandment] “You shall have no other Gods,” for through complete contemplation of “I am the…
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Tsadok ha-Kohen of Lublin
Places:
Lublin, Russian Empire (Lublin, Poland)
Date:
1902