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It was a bright and frosty winter night, moon and stars in the sky, snow, bedded snow, in the fields, and no sound from the paths, no horse and sleigh, no bell from the way, just field and peace…
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Der Nister
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1913
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Then the Israelites did what was offensive to the Lord, and the Lord delivered them into the hands of the Midianites for seven years. The hand of the Midianites prevailed over Israel; and…
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In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, when I was in the community of exiles by the Chebar Canal, the heavens opened and I saw visions of God. On the fifth day of the month—it…
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During the weeks that Eleazar spent in pious contemplation in old Asia, the people of Barcelona took pains to persecute the Jews. It was they, once again, who made it hard for Spanish merchants to…
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Else Lasker-Schüler
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1921
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Someone in a tales is walking your rooftops.
Only he is stirring in the city by night.
He listens. Old gray veins quicken—sound
Through courtyard and synagogue like a hoarse, dusty heart.
You are a…
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Moyshe Kulbak
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1929
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The Cabalist:Sexton, light the candles. [The Sextonlights each man’s candle. The Cabalistadvances slowly to The Girl, who stands slackly, her body making small occasional jerking movements, apparently…
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Paddy Chayefsky
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1959
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With his asses, male and female,
His woolly sheep and billy goats,
His oxen and his camels
Bearing wineskins on their backs,
With his wives and his handmaids,
His servants and his…
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Edmond Fleg
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1913
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Pisherl woke up. He was delighted when, on coming into the workroom, he discovered I was there. He ran up and embraced me as if we hadn’t seen each other in years…
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Itzik Manger
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
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1939
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A mountain in the desert.
On the desert mountain—
Nine,
Nine tall men.
There must be something here—
The Nine want something here—
And the tenth man?
He stands at the head of them…
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Aaron Zeitlin
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
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1926–1927
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In the first year of King Belshazzar of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and a vision of his mind in bed; afterward he wrote down the dream. Beginning the account, Daniel related the following…
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Hellenistic Period, 4th–2nd Century BCE