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Horses weren’t made for water.
They can swim but not too far.
“Gloria” means the same as “glory”—
You will easily remember this part.
Braving the sea, a transatlantic vessel
Ra…
Contributor:
Boris Slutsky
Date:
1956
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A messenger’s coming to you today.
I’m the one who sent him.
He’s bringing a bag of gifts.
Don’t bolt the door on him.
He’s bringing a bag of gifts.
I collected and watched them.
He’ll lay them at…
Contributor:
Yosef Rolnik
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1915
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Quick! Help! Save a poor girl!
A Hebrew servant girl screamed:
Help me, merciful people, hurry
and save me from this racing stag
who runs with such a fury.
Free my hands from his horns!
The woman…
Contributor:
Sarah Shapira
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1886
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Ḥayim ben Bezalel
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Worms, Holy Roman Empire
(Worms, Germany)
Date:
Late 15th or 16th Century
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Artist Unknown
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Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1500
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Jacob van Ruisdael
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
ca. 1654/5
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With his asses, male and female,
His woolly sheep and billy goats,
His oxen and his camels
Bearing wineskins on their backs,
With his wives and his handmaids,
His servants and his…
Contributor:
Edmond Fleg
Places:
Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1913
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It is a work that contains two hundred precious and wondrous stories, full of ethical [edification] and [inspiring] fear of the Lord, sweeter than honey, bringing joy to oppressed hearts and souls…
Contributor:
Yitsḥak Dov Ber ben Tsvi Hirsh
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Poland, Poland)
Date:
1900
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August is flat and still, with ever-thickening green
Leaves, clipped in their richness; hoarse sighs in
the grass,
Moments of mowing, mark out the
lengthening summer. The ground
We children…
Contributor:
John Hollander
Date:
1965