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In every village in the region, in every farmhouse you’d meet them, the Boyars. The first Boyar, family legend had it, had settled in the Polesian forests many generations ago. His name had been Ezra…
Contributor:
Eli Shechtman
Date:
1965
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Moses who was God’s unique messenger,
Who revealed the Path of God to humankind,
In God’s Presence at Mount Sinai
He received knowledge and insight,
The Torah, the Truth, and the Path
He accepted…
Contributor:
‘Imrānī
Places:
Isfahan, Ottoman Empire
(Isfahan, Iran)
Date:
Early 16th Century
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In her grace, an awe-inspiring woman musters a holy and treasured people,
Each dawn and each evening she gives me recompense,
She is my bow and she is my sword and in her my heart is redeemed.
She is…
Contributor:
Shalem Shabazi, Shalem Shabazi
Places:
Taiz, Yemeni Zaidi State
(Taiz, Yemen)
Date:
ca. 1679/80
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Jeremiah:Not now the time for beginnings. The end draws nigh.
The Mother:It is time! It is time! Long since have you grown to manhood. The house has need of a wife, and of children to raise up seed…
Contributor:
Stefan Zweig
Places:
Vienna, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1917
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The little sons of Abraham took shells
And floated boats made out of mother-pearl;
Then Isaac leaned in fear on Ishmael.
And mournfully sang the two black swans
Quite gloomy notes…
Contributor:
Else Lasker-Schüler
Places:
Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1913
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They have given you French names
and made you captive, my rugged
troublesome compatriots;
your splendid beards, are epicene,
plaster white
and your angers
unclothed with Palestinian hills quite lost…
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Irving Layton
Places:
Montreal, Canada
Date:
1956
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The fable tells us
that the Jews bought for themselves
a private place in hell.
In the first circle,
seated on a wooden bench,
Karl Marx fans himself with his hand.
The prophet Jeremiah
fights off…
Contributor:
Isaac Goldemberg
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1973
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When, through God’s guiding grace,
The prophet Joshua and the Hebrews
Encamped before the town of Jericho,
Besieging it from every side,
They…
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Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz, ‘Imrānī
Places:
Isfahan, Ottoman Empire
(Isfahan, Iran)
Date:
Early 16th Century
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When Jephthah set out for the road
He did so full of happiness and joy.
He had a daughter, a solitary cypress,
Her visage fairyborn; two…
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Aaron ben Mashiaḥ
Places:
Isfahan, Ottoman Empire
(Isfahan, Iran)
Date:
1692
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By Abraham’s virtue and merit,
turn toward us with compassion;
from on high have mercy upon us,
my Lord, and my redemption:
Hear my voice in the morning.
Have mercy on the people you’ve chosen…
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Freyha bat Abraham
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First Half of the 18th Century