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Israel Paldi
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En Kerem, Mandate Palestine
(En Kerem, Israel)
Date:
1928
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[ . . . ] [T]here was a lecture in the big union hall on the topic of Soviet food policy. The wife of our protagonist also wanted to go and listen. You didn’t…
Contributor:
Abraham J. Zhitnik
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1925
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This flute from Tel Goren at En Gedi, 4 inches long and .67 inches wide (10 × 2 cm), is made from the hollowed shaft of an animal bone. The hole near the center was probably for blowing air across the…
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‘En Gedi, Land of Israel
(Tel Goren, Israel)
Date:
Iron Age IIC, End of 7th−Beginning of 6th Century BCE
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His strong, coal-black hands crumpling and twisting his faded old hat, the thirty-year-old Adoons said in a quiet but firm voice to his employer, Mr. Waldman, the produce dealer,
“Baas, I’m finishing…
Contributor:
Morris Hoffman
Places:
Little Karoo, Union of South Africa
(Little Karoo, South Africa)
Date:
ca. 1920
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There are things in this country too—
And if they find no streetlamp pole,
There will be a tree—and that means clearly
That a Negro over twenty years old
May hate all things which spire
To hold a man…
Contributor:
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1934
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On a turquoise sea sails a ship. A sharp-eyed gull flies around the mast, swooping down from time to time to see what is happening on the ship, in all its decks. The boat has three decks and a bridge…
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Lova Eliav
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1973
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He remembers well how for the first time in his life he tried to cross the big street in Baghdad. With one hand his mother held onto him and with the other she held her long and wide cape, looked…
Contributor:
Shalom Darwish
Places:
Baghdad, Iraq
Date:
1948
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Birds are drowsing on the branches.
Sleep, my darling child.
At your cradle, in the field,
A stranger sits and sings.
Once you had another cradle
Woven out of joy.
And your mother, oh your mother
W…
Contributor:
Leah Rudnitsky
Places:
Wilno, Republic of Poland
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
ca. 1942
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The people I love the best
jump into work head first
without dallying in the shallows
and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
They seem to become natives of that element,
the black sleek…
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Marge Piercy
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1973