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The word of the Lord came to me: O mortal, propound a riddle and relate an allegory to the House of Israel. Say: Thus said the Lord God: The great eagle with the great wings and the long pinions,
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Ah, you are fair, my darling,
Ah, you are fair.
Your eyes are like doves
Behind your veil.
Your hair is like a flock of goats
Streaming down Mount Gilead.
Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
Climbi…
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Hellenistic Period, 4th–2nd Century BCE
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Then Khalīāl answered God:
“I have sworn an oath upon the Truth;
I will not hold back my hand from Isaac
Until my oath is carried out. O Lord,
My condition to desist is a witnessed covenant,
That…
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Amīnā
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Beginning of the 18th Century
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He never mentions it by name. It might have been Trebibor or Majdawitz, Soblinka or Birkenhausen. He talks about “the camp,” as if there had been just one.
“After the war,” he says, “I saw a film…
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Carl Friedman
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
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1991
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It happened on a Saturday night at the end of summer. Reuven and his household were sitting at twilight and enjoying their heifer. His youngest were patting her, the older were praising her. The…
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Mikhah Yosef Berdyczewski
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1901
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To the right and left, just sand and sand,
yellow desert without a path.
A caravan passes, moving silently,
like a dream there, so strange.
The tinkling of bells rises and falls rhythmically.
Cam…
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Jacob Fichman
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1913
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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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(Kyiv, Ukraine)
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1913
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Shlof, shlof, shlof,
Der tateh vet kumen in dorf,
Vet er brengn an epeleh,
Vet zayn gezunt dos kepele.
Sleep, sleep, sleep,
Daddy is traveling to the village,
He will bring back a little apple,
So…
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(Moscow, Russia)
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Late 19th–Early 20th Century
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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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It is barely six in the morning and the stars are still out, but Manuel has to get up.
It isn’t a job that wakes him. That obligation used to get him right to his feet, but now? Now just getting…
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José Rabinovich
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
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1937