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You will come back.
You will, with God’s help, come back
With a far-off, alien look.
(I’m preparing myself,
I already know,
I’ve seen how they come back.)
You will sit in your regular chair, unsure
A…
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Malka Heifetz Tussman
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Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1944
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Howard Kanovitz
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1966
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I left his house
Of my own volition.
In order to build him a house
Of my own volition.
But it seems my father
Remained solitary
And neglected
Not of his own volition.
I was moving towards my…
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Avot Yeshurun
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1974
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Saul Leiter
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1947
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Behold, I am aged and my eyes are dim and my hands heavy and shaky, and at a time when my strength, enabling me to remain standing upon my watch, is ebbing away—with the yoke of the…
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Pinchas Katzenellenbogen
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Boskovice, Holy Roman Empire (Boskovice, Czech Republic)
Date:
1760
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On the eve of the New Year I found myself with a new career before me. What kind of career? “I don’t know”—the American’s customary reply to every difficult question. . . . I was in New York, trying…
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Abraham Kohn
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1842
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It was noon and a small boy lay on the couch in the room. The woolly coverlet prickled his back, making him toss about uncomfortably. His eyes roved across the ceiling and down the blank walls to the…
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Benjamin Tammuz
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1950
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The Lord said to Abram, “Go forth from your native land and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you.
I will make of you a great nation,
And I will bless…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Biblical Period
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We had more or less forgotten them. We wanted to convince ourselves, without really trying to find out, that the march of time had left them satisfied, happy, at peace. The quarrels provoked by…
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Henri Chemouilli
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1972