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Humor—is a Jewish thing. What Jew doesn’t enjoy listening to a nice story, parable, or witticism? When is a Jew indisposed to joking around? Not due to great luxury, God forbid, but on the contrary…
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Sholem Aleichem
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1892
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Only three exits are becoming to every woman, big or small. The first is when she exits from the womb, dirtied, as if from a deep swamp. The second is when she exits from her woman’s tent and enters…
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Immanuel Frances
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17th Century
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Enough of girls! I’d rather live alone
Than touch those reptiles, though they may be fair.
I’m sick and tired of wasting on the air
My strength and every penny that I own.
For once they’re mine…
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Moses Rieti
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Florence, Republic of Florence (Florence, Italy)
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Early 16th Century
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O age! Here’s something new that I have filled
With old, like fine oil in a flask.
A kind of verse to please men’s mouths and minds
I have invented for exploring love.
I provide a model of the…
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Judah Sommo
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
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16th Century
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The Sharon Valley was full of mud. Wherever we looked all we saw was mud. Fields, green trees and little houses, and great expanses of dark mud. The water from the rains which had fallen over the past…
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Yehoshua Kenaz
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Petah Tikva, Israel
Date:
1980
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Stalinstan,
Stalinstan,
Who is present and on hand
From the Party,
From the Union?
Who was on his way
Somewhere else today,
When a chain of men caught him
And then brought him
To…
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Izi Charik
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1934
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It’s one in the morning. I’m writing this poem
in a train station.
What does poetry have to do with trains?
I came here unexpectedly
traveling the wrong way.
Telling the story is risky:
I was…
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Aaron Zeitlin
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1936
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Work, tradesmen, shops, the town is there
with old maids polished down by emptiness
on haberdashers’ threshold where the antique sun
brushes off jewels dusty with being looked at.
Dressed up for…
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Benjamin Fondane
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1937
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For two minutes we gazed at each other
In curious silence.
When politeness nudged me in the shoulder,
I introduced myself:
A man, the crown of creation.
The grasshopper
Was not overwhelmed.
He kept…
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A. Leyeles
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1937
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For the first fifteen years of our lives, Danny and I lived within five blocks of each other and neither of us knew of the other’s existence. [ . . . ]
Danny and I probably would never have met—or we…
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Chaim Potok
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1967