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[The lessons a mother should give her son]: My son, you should know that before your body looked the way it does now, it was nothing. You were formed in my belly from the drops of fertility that came…
Contributor:
David Attias
Places:
Livorno, Holy Roman Empire
(Livorno, Italy)
Date:
1778
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To the princes and the honored ones, rulers of the people, the members of the charitable association in the ghetto of the holy community of Venice, may their Rock and Redeemer protect those who…
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Leone Modena
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1619
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You Will Be Wrapped in Silk
“And how do you merit to live so long?”
—Because I know there is need to consider.
At my birth someone said, “He will be wrapped
in silk.” And now the guests are…
Contributor:
Allen Grossman
Places:
Chelsea, United States of America
Date:
2003
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The bathroom looked as though some spiteful thug had left his calling card after having robbed the house. As my father was tended to and he was what counted, I would just as soon have nailed the door…
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Philip Roth
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1991
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Household of eight.
Beds are two.
When it gets late,
What do they do?
Three with father,
Three with mother:
Limbs
Over each other.
When it’s night
And they go to bed,
Mother begins
To wish she…
Contributor:
Avrom Reisen
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1899
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Night. In the darkest places sparkle traces
Of words. Loaded ships with ideo-glyphs
Sail away. And you, armored in silence and wisdom,
Unwrap word from sense.
Mementos—rain-veiled horizon,
Flickeri…
Contributor:
Jacob Glatstein
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1937
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Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;
Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile
The short and simple annals of the poor.
—Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a…
Contributor:
Meir Basri
Places:
Baghdad, Iraq
Date:
1955
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Every day when his mind was at ease,
Relieved of the need to tell us about the countries he’d seen,
He would raise his hands high above our heads,
Appealing on our behalf before the Almighty to let…
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Moshe Sartel
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1967
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Life is like a river;we are fish.The water’s wholesome and freshand we would swim forever,but for a black figureon the riverbank.There Satan stands,in his handsa fishing rod,and catches fish.With a…
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Y. L. Peretz
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1888 and 1908
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There are many riddles in life,
Mounds and mounds of answers too;
The wise men have many solutions,
The morons have a desire for life.
Once a wise man told me:
“There is one essence of being,
Only…
Contributor:
Jacob Steinberg
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1907