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When my father made his last trip to the Antilles, Salomón, a cousin of his whom he had loved since childhood, had just lost his wife. At a very young age, they had come together to South America…
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Jorge Isaacs
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Bogotá, United States of Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia)
Date:
1867
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The Triangle firm was housed in a modern building, practically a skyscraper, situated on the edge of the enormous open square in the heart of the city. The factory took up several floors of the…
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Sholem Asch
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1946
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My Lord, how stands it with me now
Who, standing here before you
(who, fierce as you are, are also just).
Cannot bow down. You order this.
Why, therefore, I must break
If bend I will not, yet bend I…
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Eli Mandel
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Toronto, Canada
Date:
1973
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The fable tells us
that the Jews bought for themselves
a private place in hell.
In the first circle,
seated on a wooden bench,
Karl Marx fans himself with his hand.
The prophet Jeremiah
fights off…
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Isaac Goldemberg
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1973
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On the night of Simhat Torah 5575 [1814], the Seer closeted himself in his room on the second story of his home. The one window overlooking the wide Jewish street was open; it was very near to the…
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Urye Kahan
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1867
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[Curtain]
Narrator [entering and about to speak when he hears voices behind the scrim. Walking over, he peers through an opening in it]:
How they weep, how they mourn,
The wind-borne dead!
N…
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Y. L. Peretz
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1908
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Everyone loved . . . it was a plague
of infatuation, of kisses;
But the people soon became quiet,
the mothers were already nursing.
The drum of youth was laid
in the corner, and the…
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Jacob Steinberg
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Bern, Switzerland (Switzerland)
Lucerne, Switzerland (Switzerland)
Date:
1909
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The Dark Ages are looming. Do you hear, feel it, person of feeling,
The whisper of the dust slowly creeping, the distant smell of Sulphur?—
And that anguish fading in the air, the heart and the…
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Shneur Zalman of Liady
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1913
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In his malodorous brain what slugs and mire,
Lanthorned in his oblique eyes, guttering burned!
His body lodged a rat where men nursed souls.
The world flashed grape-green eyes of a foiled cat
To him…
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Isaac Rosenberg
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Cape Town, South Africa
Date:
1916
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Day unto day bequeaths its fading sun,
and night after night laments for night.
Summer after summer is gathered in fall
and the world in its sorrow gives song.
Tomorrow we’ll die, the word in us…
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Avraham Ben-Yitzhak
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1917