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The holy tongue is a language like no other. All other tongues exist only by agreement, each nation having agreed upon its language. But the holy tongue is the one…
Contributor:
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1937
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Lately, there’s no trace left
Of Yankl, son of Yitskhok,
But for a tiny round dot
That rolls crazily through the streets
With hooked-on, clumsy limbs.
The lord-above surrounded
The whole world with…
Contributor:
Jacob Glatstein
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1921
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Man has separated lust and sorrow.
But God holds them together like day and night.
I know lust. I know intense suffering.
I praise God’s one name.
Translated by David Soeterndorp.
Contributor:
Jacob Israël de Haan
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1924
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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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[A deserted place on the bank of the river outside of Prague. Daybreak. All is dark and silent. Reb Levi Bar Bezalel, or the maharal, an old man of seventy, stands over an outlined mound…
Contributor:
H. Leivick
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Warsaw, Poland
Date:
1921
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Remove your shoes from your feet and, barefoot, feel the earth!
Whatever was in the past and be what may now—today the land is ours, the heavens are ours, and the sea is our sea.
Let us go out to the…
Contributor:
Gershom Shofman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1949
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The days of my life pass by, dissolve like mist.
I don’t know the what and when; I don’t know the who.
Baal and Astarte have grown alien to me.
My kingdom and my foes grow alien, too.
I don’t…
Contributor:
Shulamit Kalugai
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1941
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And in that drowning instant
as the water heightened over me
it suddenly did come to pass
my preterite eternity
the image of myself intent
on several freedoms
fading to
myself in yellowed Basle…
Contributor:
A. M. Klein
Places:
Philadelphia, United States of America
(Montreal, Canada)
Date:
1943
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Lord, I have seen too much for one who sat
In quiet at his window’s luminous eye
And puzzled over house and street and sky,
Safe only in the narrowest habitat;
Who studies peace as if the world were…
Contributor:
Karl Shapiro
Places:
New York City, New Guinea
(New Guinea, Indonesia)
Date:
1943
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From Hoza Street and Marszalkowska
carts were moving, Jewish carts:
furniture, tables and chairs,
suitcases, bundles
and chests, boxes and bedding,
suits and portraits,
pots, linen and wall…
Contributor:
Wladyslaw Szlengel
Places:
Warsaw, Poland
Date:
1943