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One day a neighbor broke the leg of a stray dog with a heavy stone, and when Vasil saw the sharp edge of the bone piercing the skin he cried. The tears streamed from his eyes, his mouth, and his…
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Lamed Shapiro
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1919
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Rabbi Ezekiel of Kozmir and his followers were great believers in the divine principle of joyousness.
Reb Ezekiel himself was a giant of a man, standing a full head above his Chasidic followers, and…
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Israel Joshua Singer
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1922
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Mordkhe Spektor [1858–1925] was the “honorary chair” of the “Society of Gluttons and Drunkards.” Though he had not been elected to this “post,” everyone felt that Spektor was the singular candidate…
Contributor:
Elkhonen Zeitlin
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1937
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Someone gathered rich apples, rich corn,
Grown of your heart and your brain,
And in me, as a loft, has stored
Some of the fruit and grain.
The loft smells sweet with its store:
The corn for making…
Contributor:
Joseph Leftwich
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1932
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(Short Poems in Prose)
Contributor:
Yosef Kirman
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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When Rabbi Zusya went to suffer the exile in Germany, he came to a city of Reform Jews. When they saw his ways, they mocked him and thought he was crazy. When he came into the synagogue, some of them…
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Elimelech of Lizhensk, Zusya of Annopol (Hanipoli)
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1902
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Leslie Kimmelman
Places:
Morton Grove, United States of America
Date:
2000
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Marilyn Hirsh
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1986
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Neil Goldberg
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1996
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In the ninth year,
From Siptan, to Baalzamar:
A jar of aged wine
Translated by Anson F. Rainey from Shmuel Aḥituv’s Hebrew edition.
Places:
Samaria, Land of Israel
(Kaleh Qaţār-e Soflá, Iran)
Date:
First Quarter of the 8th Century BCE