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The holy tongue is a language like no other. All other tongues exist only by agreement, each nation having agreed upon its language. But the holy tongue is the one…
Contributor:
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1937
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He sings in the courtyard, clad in rags
A small, poor chap, a crazed Jew.
People drive him away, God has muddled his wits
Ages and exile have confused his tongue
He wails and he dances, weeps and…
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Julian Tuwim
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1926
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In solitary confinement it was forbidden to bathe, but when I got to my cell I washed my hands, face, and upper body well and lay down to sleep. This time I slept for about an hour and a half. At six…
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Zvi Preygerzon
Date:
1960
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Proverbs are the wisdom of the people, the fruit of common sense, and in particular, are distilled from general experience. They are to the moral…
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Leopold Dukes
Places:
Leipzig, German Confederation
(Leipzig, Germany)
Date:
1844
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At the close of Independence Day 1972
a biplane plane rose
in the Tel-Aviv sky at dusk
and on its belly
moving lights flashed:
For health and pleasure eat plenty of poultry
Eat as you should…
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Meir Wieseltier
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1973
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With you, it is not impossible to define
creatures and things with the simplicity
of the fish whose scales streak the sea with blue and gold,
Or of the sea itself that swells with the gracefulness of…
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César Tiempo
Places:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1933
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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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It is possible to see the promise of a beginning of Levantine literature—rooted in the realities of the Middle East and influenced by European culture—in Le livre de Goha le Simple [Goha the Fool] by…
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Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1973
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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:
Princeton, United States of America
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1942
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There is a certain place where dumb-waiters boom, doors slam, dishes crash; every window is a mother’s mouth bidding the street shut up, go skate somewhere else, come home. My voice is the loudest. […
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Grace Paley
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1959