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The turning wheel runs round and round.
It opens and closes the exit of my gate.
Noisily it turns for ruin and destruction.
My head is split, my entrails spilled.
It chases and it catches…
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Solomon de Oliveyra
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
17th Century
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Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
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Frankfurt am Main, German Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1880
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One afternoon a friend from class asked me a religious question. After I answered her, she remarked that it was curious that our teacher had not been able to answer the same question. “Don’t be so…
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Reina ha-Kohen
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Salonica, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1908
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If a visitor to Berditchev wishes to hear a typical Jewish melody, let him listen to Reb Nisson Belzer’s protégé. If it is Berditchever Chassidic song he desires, he should go to the Karliner shtibel…
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Hillel Zeitlin
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1911
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Moses, from whose loins I sprung,
Lit by a lamp in his blood
Ten immutable rules, a moon
For mutable lampless men.
The blonde, the bronze, the ruddy,
With the same heaving blood,
Keep tide to the…
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Isaac Rosenberg
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(France, France)
Date:
1918
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Naftali Herz Imber
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New York, United States of America
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ca. 1910
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The purpose in view was, as may easily be gathered from the essays themselves, to bring under the notice of the English public a type of men produced by the Synagogue of the…
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Solomon Schechter
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Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
(Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Date:
1896
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He looked, and there was a well in the field, and there were three flocks of sheep lying down by it, for from that well the flocks were watered. But the stone was large on the mouth of the well. When…
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Sefat Emet (Judah Leib Alter)
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(Poland, Poland)
Date:
1905
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[ . . . ] God chose the Jews: they are a chosen people, though not a people (as I hold and as I shall subsequently maintain) in the sense that the English or the…
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Claude Montefiore
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(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1912
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Today for you all there is an opportunity more important than any that has ever before been given to you.
The boys out in France and Egypt are learning the value of their homes. We believe that they…
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Lily Montagu
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Littlehampton, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
(Littlehampton, United Kingdom)
Date:
1916