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Ruth Orkin
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1976
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Human follies, silver and gold and possessions,
Last only shortly on earth, and like flies, they fly away.
Wealth flowers like abundant grain, or like a tree’s boughs,
It bears recognizable fruit…
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Joseph Yedidya Carmi
Places:
Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio
(Modena, Italy)
Date:
1626
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The rule of the aforementioned fifth and sixth items, which concern going to bed and rising. It is stated and summarized from what has been said in the past, that sleep being so harmful…
Contributor:
Moses Almosnino
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1564
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The northern Negev and the Negev mountain range
Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like watercourse in the Negev
They who sow in tears shall reap with songs of joy
—Psalms 126:4–5
More than half of the…
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Seffi Ben-Yoseph
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1985
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You’ve grown
but not
grown up
You’re ripe
as earth is raw
where roots probe deep
Like all roots
you probe
in deep darkness
Translated by Marcia Falk.
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Malka Heifetz Tussman
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1974
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To the Conductor: A song of David.
The heavens declare the glory of God,
the firmament tells His handiwork.
Day on day utters speech,
night on night announces knowledge.
There is no speech and…
Contributor:
Jacqueline Osherow
Places:
Salt Lake City, United States of America
Date:
1999
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I am not lyric any more
I will not play the harp
for your pleasure
I will not make a joyful
noise to you, neither
will I lament
for I know you drink
lamentation, too,
like wine
so I dully…
Contributor:
Alicia Ostriker
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
2002
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Fish bones walked the waves off Hatteras.
And there were other signs
That Death wooed us, by water, wooed us
By land: among the pines
An uncurled cottonmouth that rolled on moss
Reared in the…
Contributor:
Louise Glück
Date:
1987
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The top register of this plaque from Hazor depicts a crouching winged sphinx wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. The lower register shows two stylized three-tiered palmettes. The…
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Hazor, Land of Israel
(Tel Hazor, Israel)
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Iron Age IIB, first half of 8th century BCE
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Yaacov Ben-Dov
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1919