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Is it any wonder that the sick are so pure and tender,
gazing across vast distances, seeing things that no one else does,
staying up at night, and smiling in the darkness,
as they caress their beds…
Contributor:
Yisroel Shtern
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1923
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Someone in a tales is walking your rooftops.
Only he is stirring in the city by night.
He listens. Old gray veins quicken—sound
Through courtyard and synagogue like a hoarse, dusty heart.
You are a…
Contributor:
Moyshe Kulbak
Date:
1929
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O, if through thy eyes, like through sea waves,
My love could sail like a ship,
Long ago with full sails I would have boldly
Struck to your heart, like to the Holy Land.
If you light up for me in…
Contributor:
Antoni Slonimski
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1933
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He was the last. Truly the last.
Such yellowness was bitter and blinding
Like the sun’s tear shattered on stone.
That was his true color.
And how easily he climbed, and how high.
Certainly, climbing…
Contributor:
Pavel Friedman
Places:
Terezin, German-occupied Czechoslovakia (Terezin, Czech Republic)
Date:
1942
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our lightless awful days are passing
splinters of memories prick our brains
daily our Creator beats us using both hands
we are his dry weeds husked to the core
for us fire is no fire for us it is…
Contributor:
Stefánia Mándy
Places:
Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland (Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland)
Date:
1944
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And if the night
In its blue cloak
Abandons wood and vale,
And softly cries
With tears of dew
And crystal shards,
Then tear my heart
Out of my breast
And wash it in the dew—
And with your lips
Suck…
Contributor:
Fradl Shtok
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1910
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To the right and left, just sand and sand,
yellow desert without a path.
A caravan passes, moving silently,
like a dream there, so strange.
The tinkling of bells rises and falls rhythmically.
Cam…
Contributor:
Jacob Fichman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Ottoman Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1913
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On the shores of the Sea of Galilee
Lies a palace of great majesty.
There God’s garden is planted,
But not a single tree sways.
Silence; no wave is heard,
Above, every flying bird
Is still and…
Contributor:
Jacob Fichman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Ottoman Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1917
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Where everyone travels, in the middle of the road,
there is a wonderful flower.
It’s been lying there and rotting for several days now.
The wind blows it around,
and it cries out and weeps a great…
Contributor:
Elyokum Tsunzer
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
Date Unknown, 19th-early 20th century
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For the leader. A psalm of David.
The heavens declare the glory of God,
the sky proclaims His handiwork.
Day to day makes utterance,
night to night speaks out.
There is no utterance,
there are no…
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