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A fire [of joy] is kindled within me, when I recall [the spiritual climate] when I was in Yemen,
[But] my soul [descended to] abysmal depths and was immensely astounded when I came to Zion.
The Jews…
Contributor:
Shalom Rada’i
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1951
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The road is long and wide
The road is long and resplendent
We all walk it till the very end
We all walk it until the bitter end
But I walk the road alone
I give thanks and sing Hallelujah
I sing a…
Contributor:
Naomi Shemer
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1958
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At noon in the kasbah
When the souk was packed
I’d be walking around
My chest toned and hard
And they’d all be saying: What a guy
And as I walked down the alleyways
From every window…
Contributor:
Dan Almagor
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Date:
1966
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So condolence visits is what they’re here for,
sitting around at the Holocaust Memorial, putting on a serious face
at the Wailing Wall,
laughing behind heavy curtains in hotel rooms.
They get…
Contributor:
Yehuda Amichai
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1974
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On a night like this if a shudder were to shake your flesh as though a nightmare
had severed your sleep I could have risen and quietly walked to the kitchen
to write you a poem that would bring you…
Contributor:
Yitzhak Laor
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1982
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“Are you at peace? Hast thou killed and also taken possession?”
(examples of interrogative sentences in a grammar book)
Contributor:
Dan Pagis
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1982
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Savta, grandma,
could it be our transparent skin,
skin that doesn’t protect the flesh,
not in the least.
This story of ours
has details that are better left untold,
it’s good to leave blots of…
Contributor:
Dahlia Ravikovitch
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1986
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Are you Avraham’s, Yitzhak’s, Yaakov’s?
Are you my mother’s god?
What’s mine of all this?
What did I take by force of hand
and why am I alone
in a city meant to be my city
on account of a mother born…
Contributor:
Natan Zach
Places:
Haifa, Israel
Date:
1992
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Across a red horizon evening descends
In the breeze treetops tremble and sway
As we sit around the campfire and tell
Of a Palmach man, Dudu was his name
He was with us on long exhausting treks
We…
Contributor:
Haim Hefer
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Israel)
Date:
1947
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We left slowly. The night was pale.
In the distance the lights flickered.
And you were all loveliness like your two eyes
With tears cupped in them.
The jackal howled as you went to the vineyard
You…
Contributor:
Haim Hefer
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Date:
1948