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Once this was the heart of Warsaw—this labyrinth of sad narrow streets between tall tenement houses. Now this is a remote place, an ancient tumor on the body of the modern city, where its blood flows…
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Alter-Sholem Kacyzne
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1929
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The book’s name: This book [Song of Songs] is called a “song,” a noun bearing several meanings. First, it denotes music, as in the verse: all the daughters of song (Ecclesiastes 12:4), which means…
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Yoḥanan Alemanno
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ca. 1500
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Then did Moses and the Children of Israel sing this song (Exodus 15:1). Before we explain the words of this song, it is appropriate to clarify its poetic structure. I maintain that we, the Israelite…
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Isaac Abravanel
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Early 16th Century
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All my bones say: O Lord, who is like you?
My palate speaks your praise, O my Rock, my Redeemer, my King;
You bring light to my darkness and bring me out of destruction.
The…
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Meshulam Zimmel ben Moses of Polna, Jacob Ibn Tsur
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Fez, Kingdom of Morocco
(Fes, Morocco)
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Beginning of the 18th Century
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Here is a song that I created,
well composed and uncomplicated;
you can call it a song or call it a dirge.
I’d like to tell you some of my troubles:
some men have problems by…
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ḥayim Yom-Tob Magula
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
ca. 1739
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To the wheel that turns the river’s waters
And brings them upward from the flowing deep,
I sing this song, a song to banish sorrow.
For all who love and cherish and desire
The ways of poetry and…
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Solomon Mazal Tov
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
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mid 16th Century
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This wonder, this marvel,
which the deceitful fantasy
Basilisk or Asp believes it to be,
is an error of understanding:
Since if one considers it carefully,
the Divine Providence
is rewarding your…
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Isabel Enríquez
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
ca. 1670
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A fountain surges from my verse’s house.
Its flowing waters quench the thirst of men—
A fountain from the rock of perfect rhyme,
With waters cold to please the yearning man—
A flow unending…
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Sa‘adia Longo
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
End of the 16th Century
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Chaim Gliksberg
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1950
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To truly form a sense of good taste, one must be in full command of the metaphysics of the sacred tongue, something which is so necessary (and which…
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Anania Coen
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Firenze, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
(Florence, Italy)
Date:
1827