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Every day they took from us whatever their hearts desired. They said to us, “We are needed to protect you from the mob.” We had no choice but to believe them. We had to take being cheated. They…
Contributor:
Elhanan Helen
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1616
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The first Po‘ale Tsiyon group in Poltava was born out of the theoretical battle between Zionism and the journal Iskra [the organ of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party]. Up until 1905, [Dov Ber]…
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Yaakov Zerubavel
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1921
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After you, the killed of the Ukraine;
After you, butchered
In a mound in Gorodishche,
The Dnieper town . . .
Kaddish
No! Heavenly tallow, don’t lick my gummy beards.
Out of my mouth’s brown streams…
Contributor:
Peretz Markish
Places:
Kyiv, Russian SFSR (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1921
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Sky, have mercy on me!
If there be in you a God and to that God a path
and I have not found it—
you pray for me!
I—my heart’s dead and there’s no prayer left in my mouth
and no strength and no hope…
Contributor:
Chaim Nahman Bialik
Places:
Kishinev, Russian Empire (Chisinau, Moldova)
Date:
1903
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Rise and go to the town of the killings and you’ll come to the yards
and with your eyes and your own hand feel the fence
and on the trees and on the stones and plaster of the walls
the congealed…
Contributor:
Chaim Nahman Bialik
Places:
Kishinev, Russian Empire (Chisinau, Moldova)
Date:
1903
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Issachar Ber Ryback painted Pogrom during the Russian Civil War, when waves of pogroms were occurring in Ukraine and other areas in the former Pale of Settlement. In the foreground a slain man…
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Issachar Ber Ryback
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1918
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Much has been written concerning the pogroms of Jews in the Ukraine in 1918–21. Countless reports of the atrocities perpetrated by the bandits in various cities and towns were published in the Jewish…
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Nahum Gergel
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1928
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I have a great coat. I have round black eyes. I have a cap. I raise my hands. I am the boy whose hands are raised in the picture.
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Dani Horowitz
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1978
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We were too late. The pogrom erupted that very night, suddenly, like an exploding mine, and in my own neighborhood.
The first screams came to me confused, in a hazy dream. Then it dawned on me what…
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Lamed Shapiro
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1909
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We have awoken from a horrible nightmare that I believed myself unable to describe to you.
The sack of the Mellah [the Jewish quarter of the city] by the mutinous Sherifian troops began at midday on…
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Avraham Elmaleh
Places:
Fez, French Protectorate of Morocco (Fes, Morocco)
Date:
1912