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My grandfather’s kinsman, a Jew who tamed bears,
Performed in the market towns;
By day his beast was confined in chains;
At night, they danced under the stars.
Nicknamed “Ten Commandments,” the man…
Contributor:
Moyshe Kulbak
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922
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I am a stranger.
Since no one dares approach me
I would be girded with towers
That wear their steep and stone-gray caps
Aloft in clouds.
The brazen key you will not find
That locks the musty…
Contributor:
Gertrud Kolmar
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1932
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The rain cleaned off the steep facade of houses;
I write upon the white and stony sheet
And feel how my tired hand so softly rouses
From love poems that always, sweetly, were a cheat.
I wake in the…
Contributor:
Else Lasker-Schüler
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1932
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In came the beginning of the month of December 1918.
Like the cheerless, cold drizzle, dirty frozen air hovers over the fields. Everywhere fragments of sky seem to be scattered over mounds of earth…
Contributor:
David Bergelson
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922
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The night draws in around my eyes
Its ring of haze.
My pulse has sent my blood into a blaze
Though all about me a gray coldness lies.
O God, that I by living day
Should dream I’m dead,
Drink it in…
Contributor:
Else Lasker-Schüler
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1920
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We are limiting ourselves here to reworking the materials about causes of death and illnesses among Jews. The causes have in recent years been shown to the public in the official…
Contributor:
Israel Koralnik
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1928
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On the day of Walter Rathenau’s funeral in 1922, all mail and telephone service in Germany was suspended between 2:00 and 2:10 pm
“If he won’t honor our invoice, I’ll simply give him a buzz. Put the…
Contributor:
Kurt Tucholsky
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922