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Frankfurt (Oder), Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt (Oder), Germany)
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1831
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Nancy Spero
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1971
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With this collection, we intend to launch a particular trend in Yiddish poetry which has recently emerged in the works of a group of Yiddish poets. We have chosen to call it the Introspective…
Contributor:
Jacob Glatstein, A. Leyeles, N. Minkov
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1919
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Among the illegal publications that appeared in Poland during the Nazi occupation, one can find a small anthology of poems entitled Z otchlani, from the Abyss. This modest volume, published by the…
Contributor:
Michal Borwicz
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Kraków, Republic of Poland
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1947
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May the language of truth be established forever, or as the poet …
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Leone Modena
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1622/23
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Asleep in songs and lullabies was my heart, while I was dreaming, imagining myself amidst poets, as eloquent and intelligent as the finest wine yeast.
From my drunken slumber an illustrious man…
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Leone Modena
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1599
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Yeshurun sings, when in him it sees a delicate beauty in the bloom of her youth
playing the lyre in her bosom’s embrace, her song gladdening the sorrowful heart.
A charming doe [even] without kohl…
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David Saliman Tsemah
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Baghdad, Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq
(Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1933
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I am Mani Leyb, whose name is sung—
In Brownsville, Yehupets, and farther, they know it:
Among cobblers, a splendid cobbler; among
Poetical circles, a splendid poet.
A boy straining over the…
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Mani Leib
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1932
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O my creator! Pay heed to the servant that knocks at your doors; open up for him the entrance to the lintel of your dwelling place.
As he lifts up his eyes to you, may his supplication, his cries…
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Jacob Ibn Tsur
Places:
Fez, Kingdom of Morocco
(Fes, Morocco)
Date:
Beginning of the 18th Century
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I shall recount the love of God, the faithful God,
I shall study his words, and prostrate myself to the formidable God, the Lord,
I shall walk in his paths, to the central land, my palace.
Happy…
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Amīnā
Places:
Kashan, Safavid Empire
(Kashan, Iran)
Date:
1719/20