Nostalgia

Olga Kirsch

1948

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget itself.

Give us the land we have wandered in time

Through foreign parts, far, so far and then,

Every year at Passover we repeat the line

Next year we shall see Jerusalem

Perhaps I shall never enter the land,

Nor those who follow, but is a people’s hope

Not timeless like heaven’s orbit…

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Olga Kirsch

1924–1997

Poet Olga Kirsch was born in the town of Koppies in the Orange Free State of South Africa. While a student at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Kirsch made a conscious political decision to write in Afrikaans rather than English, and she is the only Jewish writer of note to have done so. In 1948, she settled in Israel, where she taught English but continued to publish primarily in Afrikaans.

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