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I have a friend, a teacher, with shaggy hair black as pitch.
He has a child (his wife is still a child too)
and when he comes home, difficult and gloomy,
she runs to meet him, like a quivering wave:…
Contributor:
Chaim Grade
Places:
Vilna, Republic of Lithuania (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1937
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The cheeks collapsed and the eyes half-shut,
My mother listens as her knees sigh:
The whole morning under the winter sky
She ran about to every market.
So let us now at the gate of the wall
Sleep…
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Chaim Grade
Places:
Tashkent, USSR (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
Ashgabat, USSR (Ashgabat, Turkmenistan)
Stalinabad, USSR (Dushanbe, Tajikistan)
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Date unknown, 20th century
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In 1943, the nights were black. The country was at war with Germany and a blackout was instituted, perforated from time to time by fifth-columnists lighting cigarettes to reveal Bom Fim’s defensive…
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Moacyr Scliar
Places:
Porto Alegre, Brazil
Date:
1972
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Apples. That’s what New Yorkers of the 1930s remember. Apples of the Hesperides, neatly stalled on corner after corner, sold on the last trembling line of decency by men who were unwilling to beg…
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Hortense Calisher
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1972
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Shlomo reclines within his shrine
Woe to my days, woe to my nights
Everyone knows how he is
Nobody knows about me
Woe to my days, woe to my nights
As if it means something to anybody.
If I have a…
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Nathan Alterman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1963
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Josef Herman
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1936–1946
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Dramatic poem by Angiolo Orvieto
Music by Giacomo Orefice
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Angiolo Orvieto
Places:
Florence, Kingdom of Italy (Florence, Italy)
Date:
1905
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Solomon Yudovin
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Volynskaya, Russian Empire (Volyn, Ukraine)
Date:
1912–1914
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The Hebrew worker did not come here as a refugee seeking shelter wherever it could be found, looking for any available means of survival. He went up into the land as an emissary of the nation, and as…
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David Ben-Gurion
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1925
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Much has already been written about the Jewish colonies in the Crimea. Unfortunately, most of the information is buried under a mountain of statistics, historical data, and political…
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Leon Dennen
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1934