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I am the knight of yearned-for blue
On God’s rosy, holy ways.
My yearning is white like milk and dew
And sweet as the honey-rain.
My armor, my sword—my word and my blood.
My sign—the green of cedar…
Contributor:
Mani Leib
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1920s
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Who is to blame that I don’t see your tree,
Garden in snow, my garden in snow.
Who is to blame that I don’t see your tree—
When a woman goes out for a stroll in your snow,
Her bosom rising and…
Contributor:
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1930
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Gate, open
doorsill, creep near.
Room, I’m here;
back to the cell.
Fire in my flesh.
snow on my skull.
My shoulder heaves
a sack of grief.
Good-bye. Good-bye.
Hand. Eye.
Burning lip
charred by…
Contributor:
H. Leivick
Places:
Denver, United States of America
Date:
1932–1936
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How does it look, the yellow patch
With a red or black Star-of-David
On the arm of a Jew in Naziland—
Against the white ground of a December snow?
How would it look, a yellow patch
With a red or…
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H. Leivick
Places:
Denver, United States of America
Date:
1932–1936
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Through narrative, poetry, law, and prayer, the Bible conditions its readers to feel reverence for nature, enjoins restraint in the exploitation of natural resources for human needs, elicits awe in…
Contributor:
David M. Gordis
Places:
Albany, United States of America
Date:
2001
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Weegee, known for his boundless energy and the wildly diverse subject matter to which he was attracted as a photographer, shot this photograph on a hot Saturday in July 1940 for the left-wing tabloid…
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Weegee
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1940
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When Arnold Newman was asked by Newsweek magazine to photograph industrialist Alfred Krupp, he initially refused. He was repelled by the idea of photographing a man who had been prosecuted as a war…
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Arnold Newman
Places:
Staten Island, United States of America
Date:
1963
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Though better known for his political cartoons, Gropper was also an acclaimed painter. This painting was probably inspired by the Spanish Civil War, and its title, Minorities, suggests that the…
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William Gropper
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1938–1939
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Wide, open, free lay the land,
Extending to far horizons.
The sandy red tract stretches
Far and strange and lonely,
Bordered by low wild plants
And unknown herbs
With…
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I. J. Schwartz
Places:
Lexington, United States of America
Date:
1925
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Late in his career, Guston turned from abstract expressionism to figurative art, creating iconoclastic, allegorical paintings. Moon is a combination of still-life, self-portrait, and landscape. In the…
Contributor:
Philip Guston
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1979