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World, they say it is your birthday,
a thousand years for each day of genesis
and we are using you up. But they have promised
that the next one will be better.
Oh End of Days, with your new earth
a…
Contributor:
Myra Sklarew
Places:
Washington, United States of America
Date:
1976
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Going to his room one night,
he locked his door and by lamp-light
counted his money, counted his foes.
Then from the table of his heart
he struck off every name but one,
which would be there till…
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Nathan Alterman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1965
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In considering Sartre’s conception of the Jew and his relation to anti-Semitism we must not forget that Reflections on the Jewish Question (published by Schocken as Anti-Semite and Jew) was written…
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Harold Rosenberg
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1949
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It is written: All the men of Israel . . . knit together as one man (Judg. 20:11). Just as one man is composed of many limbs, and when they become separated it affects the heart…
Contributor:
Shneur Zalman of Liady
Places:
Liozna, Russian Empire (Lyozna, Belarus)
Date:
Late 18th–early 19th century
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Love is a net that nature spreads out in order to multiply humankind. (Love also exists among animals.) Only complete love is true love. True love does not have any higher or lower…
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Simḥa Ben-Tsiyon
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1918
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To speak with competence about anti-Semitism, some studies would be necessary, which I have not done. I can therefore only give you my impression.
First of all, there would be grounds, I believe, to…
Contributor:
Émile Durkheim
Places:
Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1899
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Now in that same shtetl there lived a youth named Shimen, but he was nicknamed Simkhe (joy, celebration) and Plakhte (coarse cloth) because he was barefoot and almost naked and that was all he wore…
Contributor:
Yankev Morgenshtern
Places:
Lodz, Russian Empire (Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1870s or 1880s