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I have always backed off from the word.
In the Thirties Europe meant French. But was it only then? Not in earlier centuries? A bloody lesson learned that Europe was Balmazújváros as well as Notre…
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Ottó Orbán
Places:
Budapest, Hungary
Date:
1978
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The Dark Ages are looming. Do you hear, feel it, person of feeling,
The whisper of the dust slowly creeping, the distant smell of Sulphur?—
And that anguish fading in the air, the heart and the…
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Shneur Zalman of Liady
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1913
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Someone gathered rich apples, rich corn,
Grown of your heart and your brain,
And in me, as a loft, has stored
Some of the fruit and grain.
The loft smells sweet with its store:
The corn for making…
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Joseph Leftwich
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1932
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They are all seated in the parlour once again.
Alice:Alright, I have another idea. I propose we go around and describe the scene on New Year’s Eve one hundred years ago. What do…
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Michael Redhill
Places:
Toronto, Canada
Date:
2001
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Summer is waning from the gold and from the copper
and violet
of leaf fall in gardens, and clouds at twilight
that drown in their own blood.
And the garden empties, only a few stragglers,
a few…
Contributor:
Chaim Nahman Bialik
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1905
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The golden noon of the desert beats down silently
On the fields of sand.
Weary skies
Move palely
Over the stillness.
The sun’s step
Strides silently in golden shoes.
Camel footsteps cover the…
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David Vogel
Places:
Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1916
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The character of a people, as of an individual, cannot be grasped in its totality. It is recognized by us exclusively in that unfoldment and development in time which we call…
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Hans Kohn
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1924
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This is a universal history of the Jewish people in that it fully corresponds to the contents and the scope of this…
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Simon Dubnov
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1925–1929
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The light passes through the curtain and brightens it, spreading a dull glow over the night-table and drawing a single shining line over the edge of the ashtray. The woman’s one eye follows it until…
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Youval Shimoni
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1990
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Mother, there’s a tedium today,
some sadness that’s got into everything,
even an ambitious man’s dreams
show signs of a slow despair.
Mother, try loving
your self-despising son
on a day he’s alone
an…
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Umberto (Poli) Saba
Places:
Trieste, Kingdom of Italy (Trieste, Italy)
Date:
1900–1907