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In sand and in water
You will yet raise expectant eyes,
Or eyes
As indifferent as death to machine-gun bullets and borders on maps.
Together with you
Yet another sought to escape
(At long last to…
Contributor:
Noah Stern
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1943
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May the Almighty make His vaporous dew fall, for the benefit of His people and His servants, and may He, in His mercy, restore the souls to the deceased. Let him who understands hear, and let him who…
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Sa‘id Tsa‘di, Joseph Lacham
Places:
Sanaʽa, Yemeni Zaidi State
(Sanaa, Yemen)
Date:
ca. 1720
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I have written this down in connection with all that befell us during that year five thousand five hundred and sixty-nine [1809] here, in our holy community of Pressburg. Now an omen of this had…
Contributor:
Moses Sofer
Places:
Pressburg, Austrian Empire
(Bratislava, Slovakia)
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1809
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Come, O heart, and proclaim a flood upon the world; no…
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Bābāī ibn Farhād
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Kashan, Afsharid Dynasty
(Kashan, Iran)
Date:
Mid– to Late 18th Century
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How and with what will you fill
Your cup on the day you’re free?
Will you in your joy still
Hear the scream of the past
Where the skulls of chained days
Clot in bottomless pits?
Searching…
Contributor:
Abraham Sutzkever
Date:
1943
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The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah concerning the droughts.
Judah is in mourning,
Her settlements languish.
Men are bowed to the ground,
And the outcry of Jerusalem rises.
The…
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