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Hey, women, spotted with typhus and riddled with rakes of fingers
Across autumn heads of woe,
Are you fruitful? Do you multiply? How many times each?
In whorehouses? On floors?
In the stable? In…
Contributor:
Peretz Markish
Places:
Kyiv, Russian SFSR (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1920
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A shady incident took place in Moscow a few days before Easter. At noon, in the center of town, they seized an old Jew, poor and wretched, who was carrying a burlap sack on his back and in it the…
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Elisheva Bikhovsky
Date:
1923
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Yaacov Ben-Dov
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1919
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Chana Orloff
Places:
Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1924
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The avenue of willows leads nowhere:
it begins at the blank wall of a new apartment house
and ends in the middle of a lot for sale.
Papers and cans are thrown about the trees.
The disorder does not…
Contributor:
Charles Reznikoff
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1927
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Jeshurun sings when they see him
Tender beauty in her youth
She plays and her violin is on her bosom
And its singing brings gladness to the heart of the gloomy
An unadorned graceful gazelle
Embellish…
Contributor:
David Saliman Tsemah
Places:
Baghdad, Mandatory Iraq (Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1932
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Reb Menashe Dorogofsky
what beautiful girls you have!
the brunette enchants me,
also, the red-head.
The trampled plants of our century
spring again from their feet
the curve of the Hebrew sky
which…
Contributor:
César Tiempo
Places:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1933
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Yeshurun sings, when in him it sees a delicate beauty in the bloom of her youth
playing the lyre in her bosom’s embrace, her song gladdening the sorrowful heart.
A charming doe [even] without kohl…
Contributor:
David Saliman Tsemah
Places:
Baghdad, Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq (Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1933
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Return to your ancient past
Aid your sister with education and culture
And people of Israel will once more be a nation.
Awake, daughter of Babylon, mother of knowledge
Take up in your hand the pen…
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Salim Yitshak Nissim
Places:
Baghdad, Mandatory Iraq (Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1921
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Cigarettes! Cigarettes!
My voice rings through the streets
With eyes overcast, cloudy—
Buy! Buy! Buy!
Hunting foxes—Cossacks ride—
With horseshoes like scythes—
And cut down sounds like sheaves:
Buy…
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Malka Lee
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1925–1926