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Manna
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Open your mouth To feed that flesh Your teeth have bled Tongue us out Bone by bone Do not allow Man to be fed By bread alone “And He afflicted thee and suffered thee to hunger and fed thee with…

Contributor:

Samuel Menashe

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Date:

1973

Subjects:

Food and drink, Hunger, Prayer & liturgy, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry, Popular Poetry
Ne’ilah
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Wherever we stand to lift our eyes to heaven, that place is a Holy of Holies.—S. AnskyThe sun descending settlingon the roof of the synagogue.The cantor faces the open Ark,His exhausted voice sounds…

Contributor:

Herman Taube

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Date:

1986

Subjects:

Prayer & liturgy, Holidays, Yom Kippur, Renewal Judaism, Hunger

Categories:

Prayer & Liturgy, Liturgical poetry
The Children of the Ghetto
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Not here in our London Ghetto the gates and gaberdines of the olden Ghetto of the Eternal City; yet no lack of signs external by which one may know it, and those who dwell therein. Its narrow…

Contributor:

Israel Zangwill

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London, United Kingdom

Date:

1892

Subjects:

Jewish quarters, Cities, Migration, Poverty, Hunger, Fiction

Categories:

Fiction