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The Jewish cemetery of Altona is made up of two separate cemeteries, one Sephardic (established in 1611 and later expanded several times) and one Ashkenazic (1616, also later expanded). In the…
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark (Altona, Germany)
Date:
17th and 18th Centuries
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Manuel Levy Ximenes Belmonte (1729) and Esther de Pinto (1741)
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
First Half of the 18th Century
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In Jewish folklore the sight of a water carrier bearing one or two full pails is an omen of good fortune; empty pails foretell bad fortune.
The funeral’s early, the concert is late.
I go to both…
Contributor:
Abraham Sutzkever
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1975
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And I didn’t have time.
Now it is certain
I didn’t have time.
Half my life.
It is now allowed
To be silent.
My shadows grow
With the stride of the sun.
I am the man
Who didn’t have time.
Contributor:
Haim Gouri
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Date:
1958
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My sister sits happy
at her bridegroom’s table. She does not cry.
My sister will do no such thing:
what would people say!
My sister sits happy
at her bridegroom’s table. Her heart is awake.
The…
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Abba Kovner
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1967
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They went down in the elevator, the grey woman and Mr. Sammler, and through lower passages paved in speckled material, through tunnels, up and down ramps, past laboratories and supply rooms. Well…
Contributor:
Saul Bellow
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Date:
1969
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Gravestone of honorable old lady Sra Rachel, wife of the wealthy citizen the honorable R. Jacob Fernandes Gill, deceased, seventh day of Passover, 22 Nisan 5486
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17th and 18th Centuries
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[This is the grave] of the blessed, revered, and God-fearing Abraham Baruh Henriques, who, in his life, sustained this Holy Synagogue of Nidhe Israel and protected it with…
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Barbados, British America and the British West Indies (Barbados)
Date:
1700–1750
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Crowds of people had been gathering since dawn at the morgue next to the city hospital. Drowsy, shivering, in damp gray clothes, they warmed themselves by huddling in one another’s breath. Their faces…
Contributor:
Yoysef Smolazh
Places:
Warsaw, Poland
Date:
1937