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I have always backed off from the word.
In the Thirties Europe meant French. But was it only then? Not in earlier centuries? A bloody lesson learned that Europe was Balmazújváros as well as Notre…
Contributor:
Ottó Orbán
Places:
Manchester, United Kingdom
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1978
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The Dark Ages are looming. Do you hear, feel it, person of feeling,
The whisper of the dust slowly creeping, the distant smell of Sulphur?—
And that anguish fading in the air, the heart and the…
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Shneur Zalman of Liady
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1913
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This is a universal history of the Jewish people in that it fully corresponds to the contents and the scope of this…
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Simon Dubnov
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1925–1929
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The character of a people, as of an individual, cannot be grasped in its totality. It is recognized by us exclusively in that unfoldment and development in time which we call…
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Hans Kohn
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1924
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The light passes through the curtain and brightens it, spreading a dull glow over the night-table and drawing a single shining line over the edge of the ashtray. The woman’s one eye follows it until…
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Youval Shimoni
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1990
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Mother, there’s a tedium today,
some sadness that’s got into everything,
even an ambitious man’s dreams
show signs of a slow despair.
Mother, try loving
your self-despising son
on a day he’s alone
an…
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Umberto (Poli) Saba
Places:
Trieste, Kingdom of Italy
(Trieste, Italy)
Date:
1900–1907
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From the top of a spire’s tower
A ringing’s heard—once. Again.
In the chasms of night and land of snow
A little village sunken low.
Overnight, human isles of rest
Warmed by the straw.
Close with…
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Dovid Hofshteyn
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(Ukraine, Ukraine)
Date:
1912
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The Three Ketovim
There are three Ketovim: in the early morning
One wanders off, who in the fresh bread
Has concealed his shameless anger.
Do not eat it, as it will lead to a painful death,
Over the…
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Jacob Israël de Haan
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date:
1915
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While the townsfolk knew that an archbishop was coming, no one in Skalle [Skala, today Ukraine] made a big fuss about the news. It was only when pine gates were set up at the entrance that people…
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Fradl Shtok
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1919
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A season is set for everything, a time for every experience under heaven:
A time for being born and a time for dying,
A time for planting and a time for uprooting the planted;
A time for slaying…
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Persian–Hellenistic Period, 6th–3rd Century BCE