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To the Conductor: A song of David.
The heavens declare the glory of God,
the firmament tells His handiwork.
Day on day utters speech,
night on night announces knowledge.
There is no speech and…
Contributor:
Jacqueline Osherow
Places:
Salt Lake City, United States of America
Date:
1999
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Come my beloved,
let us go into the open;
Let us lodge among the henna shrubs.
Let us go early to the vineyards;
Let us see if the vine has flowered,
If its blossoms have…
Contributor:
Aryeh Ben-Gurion
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1985
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Joyous, free, the bird will sing,
Trembles on his throne the king,
Trembling is not good for me—
Like a bird I sing so free,
As winds prance,
In a trance,
Wild and blind, I roam and dance,
One street…
Contributor:
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1911
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Sid Grossman
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1947
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They would run into each other twice a day: early in the morning, going to work; and in the evening, coming back. They would see one another on the same sidewalk, but they were headed in opposite…
Contributor:
Hirsh Bloshtein
Places:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
ca. 1930
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Holy grandmothers in Jerusalem,
May your virtue protect me.
The smell of blossoms and blooming orchards
I suckled with my mother’s milk.
Feet soft as hands, fumbling
In the torrid sand,
And tousled…
Contributor:
Esther Raab
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1930
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O, if through thy eyes, like through sea waves,
My love could sail like a ship,
Long ago with full sails I would have boldly
Struck to your heart, like to the Holy Land.
If you light up for me in…
Contributor:
Antoni Slonimski
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1933
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Before your shining, full eyes
How good it is to live;
Before their light every limb is taut
Like a eucalyptus after a storm are you:
Tired, strong and still moving in the wind
My head will reach to…
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Esther Raab
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1922
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Day and night—
Shivering, we wait in bitter day
For moonlit night,
For the caressing moon.
Quivering, we wait in angry night—
For the sunlit day,
For the warming sun.
Day and night—
We must loom…
Contributor:
Leyb Kvitko
Date:
1923
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Is it any wonder that the sick are so pure and tender,
gazing across vast distances, seeing things that no one else does,
staying up at night, and smiling in the darkness,
as they caress their beds…
Contributor:
Yisroel Shtern
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1923