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Naftali Herz Imber, Naftali Herz Imber
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
ca. 1910
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In this volume I have made a selection of religious and holiday songs.
Actually, they constitute a single group, since in reality it is hard to draw a sharp dividing line between the first group and…
Contributor:
Noah Pryłucki
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1910–1911
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[ . . . ] Similarly, the Russian Jews use the traditional rhyming couplet in those verses that chronicle a historical event or inculcate an ethical truth. The real folksongs, however, are set to music…
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Leo Wiener
Places:
New York, United States of America
Philadelphia, United States
Date:
1898
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The real start of the myth of the Jew with the Knife in English literature goes back to the tale, already hundreds of years old, which Chaucer puts into the mouth of his Prioress, a character faintly…
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Leslie A. Fiedler
Places:
Missoula, United States of America
Date:
1949
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During the night I have a vision of bedbugs in congress. A concrescence of male and female. The polluted mass pulsates, masculine organs pullulate, grow into dangerous spikes that, blinded by passion…
Contributor:
Clive Sinclair
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1982
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O our God! O our God!May Rabbi Frājī be with us.Come, people, and hear what happened to Rabbi Frājī, how he passed on.He sent after the gozbar and said to him “Come before us.”When the gozbar cam…
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Makhlouf Nadjar
Places:
Sousse, French Protectorate of Tunisia
(Sousse, Tunisia)
Date:
1913
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For Zishe Landau
Quiet, quiet, no loud talk!
Stand bent over, pale and dark,
Crouched up in a ball of pain,
Shut up—holding your breath in.
Out of the deep night
He’ll ride up on a white horse
Hear…
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Mani Leib
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1914
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[The writings of the nineteenth-century maskilic writers] Perets Smolenskin and Yitsḥok Erter opened cracks in the faith of Hasidic young men [like Asch himself]. Their life of [Talmud] study without…
Contributor:
Sholem Asch
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1915
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[ . . . ] However, the new Ha-Shiloaḥ will also be different from its predecessor in many important respects. Without a doubt, Hebrew literature has evolved and accomplished much over the past fifteen…
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Joseph Klausner
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1903