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The sea
tore a rib from its side
and said:
Go! Lie down there, be
a sign that I
am great and mighty.
Go
be a sign.
The canal
lies at my window,
speechless.
What can be sadder
than water
without…
Contributor:
Malka Heifetz Tussman
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1965
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You’ve grown
but not
grown up
You’re ripe
as earth is raw
where roots probe deep
Like all roots
you probe
in deep darkness
Translated by Marcia Falk.
Contributor:
Malka Heifetz Tussman
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1974
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Holy books, said my friend, angry,
there’s no such thing. Books,
books: let them talk
to us about books.
It was a hot night.
At noon light rips
through the room, and everything’s clear:
over the…
Contributor:
Meir Wieseltier
Places:
Berkeley, United States of America
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1986
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Oh my God, my God,
Mighty One of my existence,
have mercy on Your lost son
who has wandered from the ancestral path
and, exiled to cold and unfamiliar climes,
sought to be close to You,
but has not…
Contributor:
Hillel Bavli
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1923
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“All right,” someone will say, “granted you are a Pole. But in that case, why ‘we jews’?” To which I answer: because of blood “Then racialism again?” No, not racialism at all. Quite the contrary.
Th…
Contributor:
Julian Tuwim
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1944
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Immediately I grabbed the man, gripped him, pressed him to me with all my stomach muscles, the way a carpenter, after applying the metal vise to the cupboard that suddenly collapsed, twists and…
Contributor:
Hamutal Bar-Yosef
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Riverdale, United States of America
(Beersheba, Israel)
Date:
1990
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Oh, Father of great mercy
In sunset’s flame there fades
My cradle land
That was once nearer to me than my salt-crusted shirt
Where with my brother Russian
I shared more than once
A measly bite of…
Contributor:
Yoysef Kerler
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New York, United States of America
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1990
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Stones are stones.
Why did you say stones?
Why did you throw stones?
Why are you standing here, child?
What’s got into you to throw stones at soldiers?
Why aren’t you afraid?
Why aren’t you worried…
Contributor:
Dahlia Ravikovitch
Places:
Berkeley, United States of America
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1992
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War is the continuation of politics,
and South Lebanon is the continuation of Upper Galilee:
Therefore it’s all too natural for a state
to wage war in Lebanon.
Youth is the continuation of…
Contributor:
Meir Wieseltier
Places:
Berkeley, United States of America
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1978
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On a night like this if a shudder were to shake your flesh as though a nightmare
had severed your sleep I could have risen and quietly walked to the kitchen
to write you a poem that would bring you…
Contributor:
Yitzhak Laor
Places:
Bloomington, United States of America
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1982