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Russia! If my faith in you were any less great
I might have said something different.
I might have complained: You have led us astray,
And seduced us young wandering gypsies.
Precious to us is each…
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Shmuel Halkin
Date:
1923
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Here, then, an effort was mounted by the United States and its allies to hold the line against any further advances by the Soviet Union, whether operating on its own through military invasion or…
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Norman Podhoretz
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1979
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By these eyes that have seen the woe and grief,
their outcries heaving to my heart’s embrace,
by this compassion which taught me: forgive
till the time did come too awful for grace—
I have taken this…
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Abraham Shlonsky
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1949
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It was, in fact, our aunt who had commissioned the bus. Madame Léa Josué Chanaan was our aunt and we called her Aunt Chanaan, just as we called her husband, Monsieur Josué Chanaan, our uncle, although…
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Armand Lunel
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1926
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Spitting poison and frothing at the mouth
He spits, snorts and splutters
And writes that I am a butcher
A yid and bolshevik
Jewboy, bacillus
A baboon and a Skamandrite
That I sell out the Fatherland…
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Julian Tuwim
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1934
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When we were the persecuted
I was one of you
How can I remain one
when you become the persecutors?
Your longing was
to become like other nations
who murdered you
Now you have become like them
You…
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Erich Fried
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1974
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Mr. Ya‘acov Rabinovitch expressed bitterness about my work in Ha-Poel Ha-Tsa‘ir. I proposed: (1) the formation of one union for all Jewish Arabic teacher…
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Nissim Malul
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1913
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From the cradle to the grave,
A heavy burden crushes us . . .
Constrains the mind, destroys our strength,
Wreathes our brow with thorns . . .
And yet, with amazing power
Our lips run along the…
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Aleksander Kraushar
Places:
Russian Empire (Poland, Poland)
Date:
1890
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In these days when Jews are being killed in Palestine, I chose to go to Grenadierstrasse—not to Jerusalem. I had the feeling it was better to be with the bereaved than the dead. I paid a condolence…
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Joseph Roth
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1929
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For the past four years I had not seen the morning sun. The newspaper work generally ended about three o’clock in the morning and who can go to sleep right after work? After work one…
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Avigdor Hameiri
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1929