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Superimposed upon my face in the mirror is my mother’s. I am about to comb my hair, but here she is, brushing hers, her thick, wavy, white hair.
We quarrelled about hair.
“D…
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E. M. Broner
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1995
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Barry had joined the school three weeks earlier, at the start of the sixth form. There was a tradition at the school that any new boy would be ignored by everyone except the Christians for roughly a…
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William Sutcliffe
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Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Date:
1996
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The day my heart was troubled doubly,
By your love, O crown unto my head,
Delight and joy were mine beside the sheepfolds,
When your beauteous traits were joined to me.
Lovely are your dancing…
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Solomon de Oliveyra
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
17th Century
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Beautiful mistress mine,
upon whose snow at dawn
the rose is forming
on fields of mother of pearl.
Pure and lovely lily,
who amid coral protects itself
from the pure crystals
that the…
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Antonio Enríquez Gómez
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17th Century
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Paris, French Second Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1850
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Aged woolen women, like old siddurim—moldy, mossy
Bound in coarse canvas;
Pointless bellies dangling after them like empty sacks,
Dried-out breasts, like horseradish roots, swaying back and forth.…
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Peretz Markish
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1926
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I had learned of Louise’s suicide upon my return to Blida, my hometown. Spring had just filled the streets with the insolent beauty of those impassive young women. Violent yet secretive, as in Spain…
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Jean Daniel
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1953
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It is written: All the men of Israel . . . knit together as one man (Judg. 20:11). Just as one man is composed of many limbs, and when they become separated it affects the heart…
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Shneur Zalman of Liady
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Liozna, Russian Empire
(Lyozna, Belarus)
Date:
Late 18th–early 19th century
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For the voice:
I entreat you Paskon, Atmon, Sagron: Paskon, that my voice not stop: Atmon, that my throat not be sealed; Sagron, that my throat not be closed. May it be your will, God and Lord of our…
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Anonymous
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17th Century
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A lovely fawn inspiring awe and love,
Her eyes shoot darts that penetrate men’s
hearts.
Her lips are like a scarlet thread, a rose
Dotted with dabs of myrrh. Her face is
bright as…
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Solomon Mazal Tov
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
Early 16th Century