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[ . . . ] The past two years of the Hitler regime (1938–1939) have led many people to the impression that this is the beginning of the destruction of European…
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Simon Dubnow
Places:
Riga, USSR (Riga, Latvia)
Date:
1939
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And I will wait upon the Lord,
who hides His face from the house of Jacob,
and I will look for Him. (Isaiah 8:16)
I endeavored to place before the educated reader all the literature of redemption…
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Yehuda Even-Shmuel
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1943
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In the first year of King Belshazzar of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and a vision of his mind in bed; afterward he wrote down the dream. Beginning the account, Daniel related the following…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Hellenistic Period, 4th–2nd Century BCE
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A new world being made—one hears
In childhood that it has begun;
Then comes the passage of the years—
Is it not yet fully done?
The new world being made—always,
From childhood on—and on the day
The…
Contributor:
Avrom Reyzen
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
Date unknown, 20th century
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In meetings of the community’s Mahamad [board of governors], past and present, discussions were held about a book that Gideon [Abudiente] ordered printed concerning the…
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The Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1666
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Monelle grew quiet and looked at me:
I came from the night, she said, and I shall return to the night. For I too am a young prostitute.
And Monelle said again:
I pity you, I pity you, my love.
Even…
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Marcel Schwob
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1894
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Vilna ghetto partisan leader Abba Kovner publicly predicted the Final Solution weeks before the Wannsee conference finalized the Nazis’ plans to systematically murder millions of Jews.
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Abba Kovner
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Vilna, USSR (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1942
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The Holy Fire, one of the greatest examples of religious resistance in the Warsaw ghetto, explores a theological explanation for Jewish suffering during the Holocaust.
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Kalonymus Kalman Shapira
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Warsaw, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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God no longer speaks
as he did in the days of the Bible,
he no longer shines in the firecloud
over our roof.
Adam and Eve have run into the depths of the garden
from God’s unveiled presence,
as we—we…
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Yankev Fridman
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1960
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I am exceedingly green: chill green.
What have I to do
with all the greenishness of chance?
I am the green-source, the green-self,
one and incomparable.
Contributor:
Dan Pagis
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1970