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A letter from Zuckerman, the commissioner, evidently written by an agitated hand. It had come from Brest Litovsk bringing the news of horror. He had been in Pinsk and…
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Boris D. Bogen
Places:
Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1930
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Much has been written concerning the pogroms of Jews in the Ukraine in 1918–21. Countless reports of the atrocities perpetrated by the bandits in various cities and towns were published in the Jewish…
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Nahum Gergel
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1928
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The year 5480 of the creation of the earth and heaven, in the first month, which is the month of Nisan, the wailing of the oppressed increased. For then the hooligans began to cut off and harry the…
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Shabbetai ha-Kohen Katz
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(Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1651
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A Jewish Wedding
Deep in fields the klezmers can be heard
Driving horses foaming at the mouth,
Relatives, both poor and rich, arrive
To Reb Sane’s daughter’s wedding feast. [ . . . ]
But from a…
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Alter-Sholem Kacyzne
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1924
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How can it be told in simple, quiet words?
How can you gloss over the sharp outcry
So that people will listen to it and be silent,
With mute eyes, even without a sigh?
Without a sigh, since every…
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Alter-Sholem Kacyzne
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1925
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I have a great coat. I have round black eyes. I have a cap. I raise my hands. I am the boy whose hands are raised in the picture.
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Dani Horowitz
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1978
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On Sunday, 6 Tammuz, 5681 [July 12, 1921], I visited the author Maxim Gorky [ . . . ] and I told him the alarming news that had come to me from various cities about the horrible pogroms that had…
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Jacob Mazeh
Date:
1936
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A Young Jew. The weed of their hatred which has grown so tall
now turns towards us many heads,
many pointed petals and leaves;
what did they whisper to each other before the ikons,
and smile at over…
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Charles Reznikoff
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1934
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The German holy community of Amsterdam was founded in the year 5396 [1635/6]. This I discovered in a few pages of a book written by Maharam Maarsen, one of the first German Jews in…
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Menaḥem Man Amelander
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1743
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[To the tune of “Adir ayom ve-nora.”]
Come, dear friends, let us cry and lament
The horrible things that have happened in these times.
In the year that Messiah was expected amid tribulation [1648],…
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Joseph Lipman Ashkenazi
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Amsterdam, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Poland)
Date:
1648