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Pantel the wagon driver stretches out under the covers and sits up, yawning. The house is dark but a faint light is just beginning to penetrate through the peepholes in the shutter.
“It’s…
Contributor:
Ojzer Warszawski
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1920
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Some sort of strange, humid day. . . . Some sort of day with a ragged sun and low, dark clouds, like threads of smoke, already happened once before in the past: in distant years long ago, when our…
Contributor:
Efraim Kaganovsky
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1923
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I pray Thee O Lord
From all my heart,
O Lord! I pray to Thee.
With fervor and zeal,
For the sufferings of the humiliated,
For the uncertainty of those who wait;
For the non-return of the dead;
For…
Contributor:
Julian Tuwim
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1920
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Spitting poison and frothing at the mouth
He spits, snorts and splutters
And writes that I am a butcher
A yid and bolshevik
Jewboy, bacillus
A baboon and a Skamandrite
That I sell out the Fatherland…
Contributor:
Julian Tuwim
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1934
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The first man, Adam, lies in the grass,
And spits at a passing cloud,
Humbly, the cloud says, “Adam,
Please, would you cut that out.”
But Adam sticks out his tongue
And…
Contributor:
Itzik Manger
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1935
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It was Rabbi Benish’s practice to say his afternoon and evening prayers by himself in his study. When the news reached his ears he hurried to the prayer house. But it…
Contributor:
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1935
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An old Jew asked me near the Jaffa Gate:
“Is the Saxon Garden still there? The same as ever?
Is there a fountain? At the entrance from Czysta Street
In the old days confectioners had a shop there…
Contributor:
Antoni Slonimski
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1922
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He sings in the courtyard, clad in rags
A small, poor chap, a crazed Jew.
People drive him away, God has muddled his wits
Ages and exile have confused his tongue
He wails and he dances, weeps and…
Contributor:
Julian Tuwim
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1926
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A mountain in the desert.
On the desert mountain—
Nine,
Nine tall men.
There must be something here—
The Nine want something here—
And the tenth man?
He stands at the head of them…
Contributor:
Aaron Zeitlin
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1926–1927
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When they begin to plaster the walls
With freshly printed proclamations,
When black print sounds alarm
Calling “To the People” and “To Soldiers”
And ruffians and adolescents
Are taken in by their…
Contributor:
Julian Tuwim
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1929