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The violence of the Passover song “Had Gadya” (“Who Knows One”) clearly spoke to this illustrator’s sense of horror following World War I.
Contributor:
Menachem Birnbaum
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1920
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Ze’ev Raban
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1925
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David Heinz Gumbel
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Heilbronn, Weimar Republic
(Heilbronn, Germany)
Date:
1930–1939
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The small town resounded with whistling and shouting. The smell of stewing, the smell of frying, the smell of boiling.
Mr. Dykhes had sold all his defective soap to the army.
Mus…
Contributor:
Boris Yampolski
Date:
1940
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It was close to Passover. In the house, Passover was already present. But Father was not in a holiday mood. He looked at nobody and even his appearance changed. A yellow cast covered his face.
He had…
Contributor:
Yosef Rabin
Date:
1945
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Vilna, my great matriarch, an established Jewish city,
Jerusalem of the Exile, an ancient nation’s consolation in the north!
This [poem] is your patched kerchief, like the roof of the old synagogue,…
Contributor:
Zalman Shneour
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1923
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I just can’t. Should I? I feel like going in, but I just can’t; I remain stationary. The church door opens and closes, continually, and I open and close with it, split asunder. Warmth escapes from…
Contributor:
Alberto Dines
Places:
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date:
1972
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To Section I, which deals with the Haggadah itself, I have added six other sections.
Section II, entitled “Moses, our Teacher,” is a collation of midrashim, which discuss his attributes…
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Menachem M. Kasher
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1948
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Why should I take it to heart
I have new things on my mind,
Imagination that helps me to forget at times.
Why should I take it to heart
I have so much before that to love,
I always have friends…
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Arik Einstein, Shalom Hanoch
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1970
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In Brownsville tenements the kitchen is always the largest room and the center of the household. As a child I felt that we lived in a kitchen to which four other rooms were annexed. My mother, a “home…
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Alfred Kazin
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1951