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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…
Contributor:
Mani Leib
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1932
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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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The Jews in the Warsaw ghetto were tormented; they experienced terrible things. But from time to time they also experienced fine and wonderful things. They suffered. But they also loved. Except that…
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Marcel Reich-Ranicki
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Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Date:
1999
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Spitting poison and frothing at the mouth
He spits, snorts and splutters
And writes that I am a butcher
A yid and bolshevik
Jewboy, bacillus
A baboon and a Skamandrite
That I sell out the Fatherland…
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Julian Tuwim
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1934
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[ . . . ] The oft-repeated reproach that Homer is a liar takes nothing from his effectiveness, he does not need to base his story on historical reality, his reality is powerful enough in itself; it…
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Erich Auerbach
Places:
Istanbul, Turkey
Date:
1942
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The sunset grew bold: it insisted on staying
In the Red Sea at night, when the innocent pink
Young fawns delicately make their way
Downhill to the palace of water to drink.
They leave their silken…
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Abraham Sutzkever
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1949
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God’s grace has surely been overabundant.
Riches were mine. Hardly a day would pass
When human sympathy did not alight on me
Like manna from the sky.
I cupped my slender fingers to receive it
Ironic…
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Yuli Daniel
Date:
1969
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Everything will remember
That I was here.
The ships will be the color
Of my clothing,
The birds will use my voice for singing,
The fisherman on the rock
Will ponder my poem,
The river
Will follow my…
Contributor:
Reyzl Zychlinsky
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1962
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With this number, Di yugend passes into new hands—the hands of its writers.
It is no secret that Yiddish writers, especially young Yiddish writers—and most of the contributors to this monthly journal…
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Unknown
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1908
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O our God! O our God!May Rabbi Frājī be with us.Come, people, and hear what happened to Rabbi Frājī, how he passed on.He sent after the gozbar and said to him “Come before us.”When the gozbar cam…
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Makhlouf Nadjar
Places:
Sousse, French Protectorate of Tunisia (Sousse, Tunisia)
Date:
1913