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Else Lasker-Schüler
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1913
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With his asses, male and female,
His woolly sheep and billy goats,
His oxen and his camels
Bearing wineskins on their backs,
With his wives and his handmaids,
His servants and his…
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Edmond Fleg
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1913
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When Jephthah set out for the road
He did so full of happiness and joy.
He had a daughter, a solitary cypress,
Her visage fairyborn; two…
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Aaron ben Mashiaḥ
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Isfahan, Ottoman Empire (Isfahan, Iran)
Date:
1692
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By Abraham’s virtue and merit,
turn toward us with compassion;
from on high have mercy upon us,
my Lord, and my redemption:
Hear my voice in the morning.
Have mercy on the people you’ve chosen…
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Freyha bat Abraham
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First Half of the 18th Century
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When, through God’s guiding grace,
The prophet Joshua and the Hebrews
Encamped before the town of Jericho,
Besieging it from every side,
They…
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Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz, ‘Imrānī
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Isfahan, Ottoman Empire (Isfahan, Iran)
Date:
Early 16th Century
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Any literary account of the Hebrew Bible must recognize [its] quality of extreme heterogeneity. […] From one point of view, it is not even a unified collection but rather a loose anthology that…
Contributor:
Robert Alter
Places:
Berkeley, United States of America
Date:
1987
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They have given you French names
and made you captive, my rugged
troublesome compatriots;
your splendid beards, are epicene,
plaster white
and your angers
unclothed with Palestinian hills quite lost…
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Irving Layton
Places:
Montreal, Canada
Date:
1956
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The fable tells us
that the Jews bought for themselves
a private place in hell.
In the first circle,
seated on a wooden bench,
Karl Marx fans himself with his hand.
The prophet Jeremiah
fights off…
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Isaac Goldemberg
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1973
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The Dark Ages are looming. Do you hear, feel it, person of feeling,
The whisper of the dust slowly creeping, the distant smell of Sulphur?—
And that anguish fading in the air, the heart and the…
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Shneur Zalman of Liady
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1913
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They said that before Abraham was created, Nimrod denied belief in God, Blessed Be God, vaunted himself, and then asserted that he was a god. The ancients in his time used to worship and prostrate…
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Unknown
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Early 16th Century|before 1519