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In my cottage was I one day merrily
Despite the Fortune full of treachery.
“What are you doing?” Providence asked me.
“Why are you obsessed only with this life?
You must also know of the…
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Yuāsuf Yahuādīā
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(Bukhara, Uzbekistan)
Date:
1749
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Sometimes, when I think of my past in a superficial, casual way, the metamorphosis I have gone through strikes me as nothing short of a miracle. I was born and…
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Abraham Cahan
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1917
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My father and mother were left alone and sat down for a moment; then my father said: “Well, shall we go up to bed?”
“As you wish, dear, though I don’t feel in the least like sleeping. I don’t know why…
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Marcel Proust
Places:
Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1913
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Zion my innocent one, Zion my desired,
To thee my soul yearns from far away;
May I forget my right hand should I forget thee, my beauty,
Until my grave is sealed upon me . . .
May my tongue cleave…
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Menachem Mendl Dolitzki
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1887
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And yet she was the jewel of perfection to all far and near
Who had not seen such splendor, all who came from north and south
From all lands and gathered there, the distinguished
Who were drawn to…
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Benjamin ha-Levi Ashkenazi
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
ca. 1545