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In came the beginning of the month of December 1918.
Like the cheerless, cold drizzle, dirty frozen air hovers over the fields. Everywhere fragments of sky seem to be scattered over mounds of earth…
Contributor:
David Bergelson
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922
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[ . . . ] And we get out of their way; we move in the opposite direction, toward where they’ve come from, toward Petroshi.
And you see, they do not forbid it. And it may be that in Petroshi, where…
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Itsik Kipnis
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1926
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Early in the morning the sun took a walk in the woods
with me and my father
my right hand in his left.
A knife flashed between the trees like lightning.
And I’m so scared of the fear in my eyes…
Contributor:
Amir Gilboa
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1953
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The most terrible thing of all, somehow, was that at Brzezinka the sun was bright and warm, the rows of graceful poplars were lovely to look upon and on the grass near the gates children played.
It…
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A. M. Rosenthal
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1958
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Lately, there’s no trace left
Of Yankl, son of Yitskhok,
But for a tiny round dot
That rolls crazily through the streets
With hooked-on, clumsy limbs.
The lord-above surrounded
The whole world with…
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Jacob Glatstein
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1921
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the poem is ugly & they make it uglier
wherein the power resides
that duncan did—or didn’t—understand
when listening that evening to the other poet read
he said “that was pure ugliness” & oh it was
i…
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Jerome Rothenberg
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San Diego, United States of America
Date:
1989
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How shall I bless him and what will this child be blessed with? asked the angel. Life—so it emerges from the song lyric—was among the options of the angel’s blessing. But after all, angels don’t exist…
Contributor:
Moshe Zuckermann
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2001
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Samuel Hirszenberg
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Lodz, Russian Empire
(Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1899
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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