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for Aaron Lebedeff (1873–1960), performer on the Yiddish stage
Bewildering clarity of tongues:
names you never heard, food
you never ate, a wild dance
you never learned, light hanging
in the sky…
Contributor:
Stephen Bluestone
Places:
Macon, United States of America
Date:
1995
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The Satisfied One:I am gratified by the success in Vienna of The Diary of Anne Frank. It is a harrowing play. And it…
Contributor:
Friedrich Torberg
Places:
Vienna, Austria
Date:
1957
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There is a certain place where dumb-waiters boom, doors slam, dishes crash; every window is a mother’s mouth bidding the street shut up, go skate somewhere else, come home. My voice is the loudest. […
Contributor:
Grace Paley
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1959
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O age! Here’s something new that I have filled
With old, like fine oil in a flask.
A kind of verse to please men’s mouths and minds
I have invented for exploring love.
I provide a model of the…
Contributor:
Judah Sommo
Places:
Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
Date:
16th Century
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A Jewish musiker,
Alex Herzovitch,
wound his Schubert around and around
like diamonds.
Morning to night, happy, oh happy,
he ground out that same old
sonata, ground it by rote, ground it
to a…
Contributor:
Osip Mandelstam
Date:
1931
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Santino:What, does it seem to you, is a comedy, who was its first author, what is its purpose, is it rendered in verse or in…
Contributor:
Judah Sommo
Places:
Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1565
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At the time of the shortest, sleepy winter days, edged on both sides with the furry dusk of mornings and evenings, when the city reached out ever deeper into the labyrinth of winter nights, and was…
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Bruno Schulz
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1934
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My grandfather’s kinsman, a Jew who tamed bears,
Performed in the market towns;
By day his beast was confined in chains;
At night, they danced under the stars.
Nicknamed “Ten Commandments,” the man…
Contributor:
Moyshe Kulbak
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922
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Translated by Noa Stollman.
Contributor:
Etgar Keret
Places:
Somerville, United States of America
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
2000