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Contributor:
Roman Vishniac
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1935–1938
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Adopted at the Anniversary Congress in Warsaw, November 13, 1937
To the Jewish working men and working women.
To the rank-and-file of the Jewish people and working intellectuals!
At a…
Contributor:
Henryk Erlich
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1937
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It was Rabbi Benish’s practice to say his afternoon and evening prayers by himself in his study. When the news reached his ears he hurried to the prayer house. But it…
Contributor:
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1935
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An old Jew asked me near the Jaffa Gate:
“Is the Saxon Garden still there? The same as ever?
Is there a fountain? At the entrance from Czysta Street
In the old days confectioners had a shop there…
Contributor:
Antoni Slonimski
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1922
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He sings in the courtyard, clad in rags
A small, poor chap, a crazed Jew.
People drive him away, God has muddled his wits
Ages and exile have confused his tongue
He wails and he dances, weeps and…
Contributor:
Julian Tuwim
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1926
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A mountain in the desert.
On the desert mountain—
Nine,
Nine tall men.
There must be something here—
The Nine want something here—
And the tenth man?
He stands at the head of them…
Contributor:
Aaron Zeitlin
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1926–1927
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When they begin to plaster the walls
With freshly printed proclamations,
When black print sounds alarm
Calling “To the People” and “To Soldiers”
And ruffians and adolescents
Are taken in by their…
Contributor:
Julian Tuwim
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1929
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A porch stage left, a little window. A tree at right. Under the tree a table on a wooden beam. Two solid old benches. In the background, a fence with an entrance in the middle. Behind the fence…
Contributor:
Alter-Sholem Kacyzne
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1925
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“ . . . And all those who are on the left side go and wander in the world and seek to dress themselves in the body.”—From Zohar Beraishit
When the Havdoleh candle is extinguished,
In Gehenna, the…
Contributor:
Aaron Zeitlin
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ca. 1920
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Words forsaken—fallen leaves,
Let the wind scatter you,
And let me forget you.
I will remain like a wintry tree
Behind closed eyes, still
And silent.
Both the night will cradle me, ay-lu,
And the…
Contributor:
Kadya Molodovsky
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1927