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Where will you camp, O my ibex, for whom I yearn?
Where will you drip the droplets of your wine and your dew—O formidable one?
If you bring up your beauty to heaven on high,
You will dim…
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Isaac ‘Uziel
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
Early 17th Century
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Looking at her, the coat and everything else seemed to him to be as clear and clean as the sky.
He had to step across the old man’s mattress.
He knew he would speak to him.
“Look after Anne’s things,”…
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Arnošt Lustig
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Prague, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (Prague, Czechia)
Date:
1962
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I do not want to see you in my dreams
each night. I do not want to tremble when I hear
a footstep at my door. I do not want
to think of you each hour of every day.
I do not want to see
in the…
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Leah Goldberg
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1952
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Here, dear reader, is a prayer for you that I composed to be recited on the first night—before your permitted intercourse, by virtue of the marriage canopy, wedding ceremony, and marriage contract…
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Pinḥas Barukh Monselice
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Ferrara, Papal States (Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
Second Half of the 17th Century
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While the translation is formatted as prose, the original is a poem of ten lines.
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Mordechai Dato
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16th Century
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Jacques Lipchitz
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1938
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Burning kisses now are born
Within his heart for his chosen—
And, landing on red little lips,
Immediately are frozen.
Then a frisky little horse
Overturns the sleigh—
A snowy, stony canopy
Buries…
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Fradl Shtok
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1910
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I heard your voice, my love, and all my senses throbbed and my soul quivered in dismay. The light of my face darkened, my sun was covered with shadows, and my eyes streamed like rivers.
The arrows of…
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David Onkinerah
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
16th Century
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He married Sonechka early, out of love. He loved her passionately only for the first two years. Then he lost interest but didn’t even notice it. He wasn’t thinking about love and women as a rule. He…
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Semyon Yushkevich
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922
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Sheltered by a crimson awning,
All alone, his slaves dismissed,
A lord is bidding farewell fondly
To a black-browed odalisque.
“Sarah, houri of the prophet,
My sunshine, comfort, strength, delight…
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Afanasy Fet
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1847