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With this collection, we intend to launch a particular trend in Yiddish poetry which has recently emerged in the works of a group of Yiddish poets. We have chosen to call it the Introspective…
Contributor:
Jacob Glatstein, A. Leyeles, N. Minkov
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1919
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Among the illegal publications that appeared in Poland during the Nazi occupation, one can find a small anthology of poems entitled Z otchlani, from the Abyss. This modest volume, published by the…
Contributor:
Michal Borwicz
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Kraków, Republic of Poland
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1947
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Asleep in songs and lullabies was my heart, while I was dreaming, imagining myself amidst poets, as eloquent and intelligent as the finest wine yeast.
From my drunken slumber an illustrious man…
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Leone Modena
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1599
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May the language of truth be established forever, or as the poet …
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Leone Modena
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1622/23
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Yeshurun sings, when in him it sees a delicate beauty in the bloom of her youth
playing the lyre in her bosom’s embrace, her song gladdening the sorrowful heart.
A charming doe [even] without kohl…
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David Saliman Tsemah
Places:
Baghdad, Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq
(Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1933
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I am Mani Leyb, whose name is sung—
In Brownsville, Yehupets, and farther, they know it:
Among cobblers, a splendid cobbler; among
Poetical circles, a splendid poet.
A boy straining over the…
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Mani Leib
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1932
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I shall recount the love of God, the faithful God,
I shall study his words, and prostrate myself to the formidable God, the Lord,
I shall walk in his paths, to the central land, my palace.
Happy…
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Amīnā
Places:
Kashan, Safavid Empire
(Kashan, Iran)
Date:
1719/20
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Israel is rejuvenated like the majestic
Eagle, in the Sapphire of faithfulness,
Flying in the goodness of observance,
Its gaze fixed on the…
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Daniel Levi de Barrios
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1688
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In the Name of God, May We Endeavor and Succeed.
I Behold God before my Eyes at All Times.
A Dedication to My Master, My Father, May He Live Forever.
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Elisha ben Samuel
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1684
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Here is a song that I created,
well composed and uncomplicated;
you can call it a song or call it a dirge.
I’d like to tell you some of my troubles:
some men have problems by…
Contributor:
ḥayim Yom-Tob Magula
Places:
Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
ca. 1739