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How does it look, the yellow patch
With a red or black Star-of-David
On the arm of a Jew in Naziland—
Against the white ground of a December snow?
How would it look, a yellow patch
With a red or…
Contributor:
H. Leivick
Places:
Denver, United States of America
Date:
1932–1936
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Everyone appreciated the importance of the work that was being done. They understood how important it was for future generations that a record remain of the tragedy of Polish Jewry. Some realized that…
Contributor:
Emanuel Ringelblum
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1943
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5703—Because of its horrors, all the preceding years of Hitler will pale in people’s memory, even 5677 [1917] and 5665 [1905], and even 5408 [1648] and 5252 [1492]. In none of these peak years of the…
Contributor:
Zalman Shazar
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1943
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In my opinion, one cannot understand the development of the Science of Judaism except by taking note of the profound contradictions or, if you will, the unique dialectical tensions present within it…
Contributor:
Gershom Scholem
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1944
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There’s a folk saying: “The way it goes with the Christians, so it goes with the Jews.” Many concessions were made to the goyim, especially in matters concerning the ghetto. The guards at the ghetto…
Contributor:
Peretz Opoczynski
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941
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We’re laughing our heads off:
None of us wears a top-hat
We just go around with heads—or without heads—
But the Rabbi of Uman
Holds up a mirror to the sun.
We laugh our heads off
When a gang comes…
Contributor:
Leyb Kvitko
Date:
1923
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Yitzhak Klein gave such an angry kick to the garbage can that it flew straight into the middle of the sidewalk, scattering its stinking contents in all directions. Klein nearly exploded in his boiling…
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Ephraim Kishon
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1954
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Katerine Vrublevska had thick black curly hair, large, dark velvet eyes, a pale, dreamy, longish face and was fifteen years old.
Her classmates described her skin colour as “café au lait.” She knew…
Contributor:
Lili Berger
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1970
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He felt a gnawing sensation. He knew it was hunger. Nothing in his mouth since morning except for those slops, the slops from the Judenrat kitchen, a watery soup that was almost free, just fifty…
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Bogdan Wojdowski
Places:
Warsaw, Polish People’s Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1971
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South African Jews are forever conscious of injustice, but of the injustice that they alone are made to suffer. They quickly grow furious over the treatment of Israel, the power politics…
Contributor:
Ronald Segal, Dan Jacobson
Date:
1957