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Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned…
Contributor:
Emma Lazarus
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1883
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Jacques Offenbach
Places:
Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1880–1881
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As if you could draw a line and say: below this there’s poverty.
Here’s the bread that turned black in the colorations
Of cheap makeup
And the olives in their little plate
Atop the cloth over the…
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Ronny Someck
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1996
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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…
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Shalom Darwish
Places:
Baghdad, Iraq
Date:
1948
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Most of the immigrants came from Italy and Eastern Europe. They were taken in launches to Ellis Island. There, in a curiously ornate human warehouse of red brick and gray stone, they were tagged…
Contributor:
E. L. Doctorow
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New Rochelle, United States of America
Date:
1975
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My father brought the emigrant bundle
of desperation and worn threads,
that in anxiety as he stumbles
tumble out distractedly;
while I am bedded upon soft green money
that grows like grass.
Thus…
Contributor:
David Ignatow
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1948