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Dedicated to my sister and friend Sarah Rappoport
A people’s poetry depicts, vividly and in clear relief, the hidden inner world of national life, to which we are admitted neither by the pen of the…
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S. An-ski
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1908
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Some time ago it became known that Knut Hamsun was in the habit of expressing his views in an occasional letter to the editor of the local paper in the small town near which he…
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Walter Benjamin
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Paris, French Third Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1934
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But Heinrich Heine—even the aesthetes who are rescuing his immortality in an island publishing house (these gloriously impractical minds whose cerebral wrinkles trail away into ornament) have nothing…
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Karl Kraus
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1910
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As Yiddish poetry grew more modern, even modernistic, as it grew freer in rhythm, subtler in tonality, more artful and sophisticated in imagery, it also grew more Jewish—I was almost going to say more…
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Abraham Tabachnik
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1950
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At a time when the worship of the dead letter degenerated into idolatry; at a time when men passed their lives in counting the verses, the words and the letters of the Law, at a time when the official…
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Adolphe Franck
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Paris, Kingdom of France
(Paris, France)
Date:
1843
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For it is clear that language with all its associations does not introduce us at all into the inner area, the essence of things, but that, on the contrary, language itself stands as a barrier before…
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Chaim Nahman Bialik
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1915