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Royal Palace Caserta Italy. Image courtesy of Gianni Dagli Orti/The Art Archive at Art Resource, NY.
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Geskel Salomon
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Date Unknown, 19th century
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The first edition of Baal T’fillah was published in 1871. A compendium of over 1,500 Jewish traditional melodies, according to the traditions of German, Polish, and Portuguese (Sephardic) Jews, the…
Contributor:
Abraham Baer
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Gothenburg, United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway (Göteborg, Sweden)
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1877
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Witness 4:When we had crossed the tracks
and were waiting
at the entrance to the camp
I heard
a prisoner say to a woman
The Red Cross van is only used
to carry gas to the…
Contributor:
Peter Weiss
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Stockholm, Sweden
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1965
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And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.—Job 19: 26
O the chimneys
On the ingeniously devised habitations of death
When Israel’s body drifted as smoke
Th…
Contributor:
Nelly Sachs
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Stockholm, Sweden
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1947
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Ernst Josephson painted David and Saul early in his career, when he was working with mostly historical and biblical subjects. Here a young, eroticized David plays a lyre for a darkly brooding King…
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Ernst Josephson
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Stockholm, United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway (Stockholm, Sweden)
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1878
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When the Seven Years War broke out in 1756, I was the father of four children, and the cost of living was high. I had tried to make my way in the world like an honourable man. When the enemy Prussians…
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Aaron Isaac
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Stockholm, Kingdom of Sweden (Stockholm, Sweden)
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1801–1802
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But who emptied your shoes of sand
When you had to get up, to die?
The sand which Israel gathered,
Its nomad sand?
Burning Sinai sand,
Mingled with throats of nightingales,
Mingled with wings of…
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Nelly Sachs
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Stockholm, Sweden
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1947
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This sketch for a costume was made for the role of Jitka in Dalibor, a Czech opera in three acts by Bedřich Smetana, first performed in 1868. The plot centers on the story of a Czech knight, Dalibor…
Contributor:
Geskel Salomon
Places:
Gothenburg, United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway (Göteborg, Sweden)
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19th Century