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Chaim Gliksberg
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1950
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What I am trying to suggest is that, different as the immediately present objects were in each case, Torah for the Rabbis, Nature for Wordsworth, there existed for the Rabbis and for Wordsworth a…
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Lionel Trilling
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London, United Kingdom
(New York, United States of America)
Date:
1950
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To truly form a sense of good taste, one must be in full command of the metaphysics of the sacred tongue, something which is so necessary (and which…
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Anania Coen
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Firenze, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
(Florence, Italy)
Date:
1827
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The gentlemen of the Mahamad [board of governors—Ed.] have received a letter from the very illustrious gentlemen of the Mahamad of the Holy Congregation of T: T: [Talmud…
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Hendrik Doncker, The Jewish Community of Curaçao
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Curaçao, Dutch Colonial Empire
(Curaçao)
Date:
1740
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Santino:What, does it seem to you, is a comedy, who was its first author, what is its purpose, is it rendered in verse or in…
Contributor:
Judah Sommo
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
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ca. 1565
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A compilation containing all the techniques of poetry simply put; covering all the principles, meters, rhymes, correct methods, and true rules; sifted and clarified; solid as a bronze mirror, such…
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Joshua Benveniste
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1635
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[ . . . ] The Judaism into which Heine was born and with which he had to come to terms as a maturing man was the Judaism of the German reform. This was, to be sure, no longer the reform, creative in…
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Leo Löwenthal
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Frankfurt am Main, Weimar Republic
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
Late 1920s
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Once this was the heart of Warsaw—this labyrinth of sad narrow streets between tall tenement houses. Now this is a remote place, an ancient tumor on the body of the modern city, where its blood flows…
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Alter-Sholem Kacyzne
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1929
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For H. Leyvik
New York.
A white poet stood on the hundred-and-fourth floor.
The sky and an iron city
Engaged in a conversation.
A thirsty “forever” marched on
In bewildered
Disorganization.
New York…
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Kadya Molodovsky
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1937
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The book’s name: This book [Song of Songs] is called a “song,” a noun bearing several meanings. First, it denotes music, as in the verse: all the daughters of song (Ecclesiastes 12:4), which means…
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Yoḥanan Alemanno
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ca. 1500