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Arab Halva—moist, sticky, fibrous. The taste tears across my lips like a memory. Within me Jaffa stirs, wakens from sleep; eyes and faces of Jaffa.
I am there, it is afternoon, a city half-awake…
Contributor:
Haim Gouri
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1971
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A fire [of joy] is kindled within me, when I recall [the spiritual climate] when I was in Yemen,
[But] my soul [descended to] abysmal depths and was immensely astounded when I came to Zion.
The Jews…
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Shalom Rada’i
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1951
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Hear my cry, O Lord,
Treat Zion well, with favor, speedily.
Have mercy, fight my battle for me,
For they have turned Jerusalem into ruins.
Long have I inhabited a foreign land,
Afflicted with…
Contributor:
Isaac Samuel Modeano
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
End of the 17th Century
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If it forms the one landscape that we, the inconstant ones,
Are constantly homesick for, this is chiefly
Because it dissolves in water.
—Auden, “In Praise of Limestone”
If beauty and truth were to…
Contributor:
Avner Treinin
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1999
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Laugh, laugh at all the dreams
I, the dreamer, declare them too.
Laugh that I have faith in mankind
And I still believe in you.
For my soul still yearns for freedom
I have not sold it for a calf of…
Contributor:
Saul Tschernikovsky
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1894
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On the shores of the Sea of Galilee
Lies a palace of great majesty.
There God’s garden is planted,
But not a single tree sways.
Silence; no wave is heard,
Above, every flying bird
Is still and…
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Jacob Fichman
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1917
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The slow and green river that winds through
the blanched street of the Jewish Quarter
kept watch over your agony.
From my old table
I used to see him
approach your windows with
restless eyes. And as…
Contributor:
César Tiempo
Places:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1933
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A State is not handed to a people on a silver platter.
[Chaim Weizmann, first president of Israel]
. . . and the land was silent. The incarnate sun
Flickered languidly
Above the smoldering borders…
Contributor:
Nathan Alterman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1947
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Across a red horizon evening descends
In the breeze treetops tremble and sway
As we sit around the campfire and tell
Of a Palmach man, Dudu was his name
He was with us on long exhausting treks
We…
Contributor:
Haim Hefer
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1947
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To Dani and his friends
Behold, our bodies are laid out—a long, long row.
Our faces are altered. Death looks out of our eyes. We do not breathe.
Twilight dwindles and evening falls over the…
Contributor:
Haim Gouri
Places:
Merẖavya, Israel
Date:
1948