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Hush little baby. Forty-six years now
the night has rocked itself in my empty cradle
Now a gray head is rocked to sleep with the same tune:
Standing at the cradle’s head
No angel with two white wings…
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Chaim Grade
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1936
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Farewell, you cheerful folk of France,
My brethren’s merry throng,
A foolish nostalgia drives me hence,
I’ll be back, though, before long.
Imagine—I yearn beyond belief
For the smell of heather and…
Contributor:
Heinrich Heine
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Paris, Kingdom of France
(Paris, France)
Date:
1835
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On the white garments of my great-grandfather
the cross of the middle ages flames anew.
My great-grandfather sits at the seder,
holding a staff from a wild almond tree
to rouse the forefathers.
Not…
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Chaim Grade
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1936
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I have a friend, a teacher, with shaggy hair black as pitch.
He has a child (his wife is still a child too)
and when he comes home, difficult and gloomy,
she runs to meet him, like a quivering wave:…
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Chaim Grade
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1937
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our lightless awful days are passing
splinters of memories prick our brains
daily our Creator beats us using both hands
we are his dry weeds husked to the core
for us fire is no fire for us it is…
Contributor:
Stefánia Mándy
Places:
Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland
(Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland)
Date:
1944
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Let us chant, my brothers,
this dirge together,
for God severed our hands
by this disaster.
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Unknown
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Paris, Kingdom of France
(Paris, France)
Date:
ca. 1827
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For my daughter Nedjé
and for her husband Armand Bengui.
Where word and spirit make feeling divine
I see creation and I see poetry . . .
But I know I risk the sin of heresy
If I say the words and…
Contributor:
Sadia Lévy
Date:
1957