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[May] your mornings [be] blessed,
[May] your life [be] long,
[May] your enemies [be] shrouded, dead,
[May] your [hot] breakfasts [be] poured, cooled.
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The Jews of Zakho, Kurdistan
Places:
Zakho, Ottoman Empire (Zakho, Iraq)
Date:
17th Century
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“It is only because the Lord was with us,”
says the old Israel;
in You lies holiness,
Israel’s praises.
“It is only because the Lord was with us,”
You elevated us above other men,
You saved us from…
Contributor:
Abraham Toledo
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Date:
1732
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A lovely fawn inspiring awe and love,
Her eyes shoot darts that penetrate men’s
hearts.
Her lips are like a scarlet thread, a rose
Dotted with dabs of myrrh. Her face is
bright as…
Contributor:
Solomon Mazal Tov
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
Early 16th Century
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O peerless beauty, veil your hair, lest you play havoc with the world, without lifting a finger! They are famous throughout the world, they ring in the ears of all who hear of them. The weakest…
Contributor:
Judah Zarco
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1560
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Here is a song that I created,
well composed and uncomplicated;
you can call it a song or call it a dirge.
I’d like to tell you some of my troubles:
some men have problems by…
Contributor:
Ḥayim Yom-Tob Magula
Places:
Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
ca. 1739
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He will surely come with songs of joy, carrying the child, in the full assembly. My friends, wait here for the bridegroom of blood.
He should be coming down the road. Why is the child so late? You…
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Joseph Bibas
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
Early 16th Century
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May the bridegroom rejoice and the roses multiply, let sorrows fade away and let the young, old, and simple-minded understand. May the grooms be joyful with strophic poetry (shirot) and songs (renanot…
Contributor:
Saliḥ ibn Yaḥya
Places:
Sanaʽa, Ottoman Empire (Sanaa, Yemen)
Date:
1717–1740
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Listen, my friends, pay attention!
Be silent, do not restrain me,
Nor say, “That fellow Amīānā’s been unfaithful,
His heart and tongue in two directions pull;
If not, why did he leave his native…
Contributor:
Amīnā
Places:
Kashan, Ottoman Empire (Kashan, Iran)
Date:
First Half of the 18th Century
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To the wheel that turns the river’s waters
And brings them upward from the flowing deep,
I sing this song, a song to banish sorrow.
For all who love and cherish and desire
The ways of poetry and…
Contributor:
Solomon Mazal Tov
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
mid 16th Century
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We shall live in the shade of the graceful doe and, living there, shall be sustained. We shall walk through darkness by her light, with never-ending joy. When she laughs, we will burst into song; when…
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David Onkinerah
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
16th Century