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Where everyone travels, in the middle of the road,
there is a wonderful flower.
It’s been lying there and rotting for several days now.
The wind blows it around,
and it cries out and weeps a great…
Contributor:
Elyokum Tsunzer
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
Date Unknown, 19th-early 20th century
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O you paragon of glory and grace, listen to the call of Papos and his cry! He is bellowing like a bull, braying at you like a donkey, for you are his cow and his she-ass. His heart is already parched…
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Immanuel Frances
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17th Century
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French and Russian they matter not,
A blow for a blow and a shot for a shot;
We love them not, we hate them not.
We hold the Weichsel and Vosges-gate,
We have but one—and only hate,
We love as one…
Contributor:
Ernst Lissauer
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(Germany, Germany)
Date:
1914
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Zion my innocent one, Zion my desired,
To thee my soul yearns from far away;
May I forget my right hand should I forget thee, my beauty,
Until my grave is sealed upon me . . .
May my tongue cleave…
Contributor:
Menachem Mendl Dolitzki
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1887
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On a wagon, bound for market
There’s a calf with a mournful eye
High above her, there’s a swallow
Winging swiftly through the sky
How the winds are laughing
They laugh with all their might
Laugh…
Contributor:
Aaron Zeitlin, Sholem Secunda
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1940
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“Good morning, Master of the universe!
I, Levi-Yitzchok of Berdytschev, have come to hold
Judgment with You concerning Your people Israel.
What have You against Israel?
Why have you imposed…
Contributor:
Levi Isaac of Berdichev
Places:
Berdyczów, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Berdychiv, Ukraine)
Date:
ca. 1790
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So let’s drink whisky, brothers—
let’s hope we live to drink again.
Let’s drink now—enough of eating.
How can you forget about whisky for so long!
If we didn’t have whisky,
how would we live in this…
Contributor:
Mikhl Gordon
Places:
Žagarė, Russian Empire
(Žagarė, Lithuania)
Date:
ca. 1868
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When I observe a toothless ex-violinist,
with more hair than face, sprawled like Karl Marx
on a park seat or slumped, dead or asleep,
in the central heat of a public library
I think of Uncle Isidore…
Contributor:
Dannie Abse
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1976
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A whole world of railways appeared in our time
They carry their passengers—poor men and rich.
Admire the wonder, but bear this in mind:
It’s really a parable, meant just for you.
It is we who are…
Contributor:
Elyokum Tsunzer
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1875
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Friends, let’s celebrate this day—Viva!
Purim, occasion to be gay—Viva!
Safe and free from Haman’s wrong,
Let’s shout in unison this song—Viva, viva, viva . . .
Esther, brilliant as the sun—Viva!
G…
Contributor:
Moses L. Penha
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1847