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[ . . . ] I have striven to transmit exactly the course of thought, the spirit, and the expressions of the [original] text; thus, you have before you not a “reworking” but a true translation.I have…
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Max Weinreich
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1915
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For Zishe Landau
Quiet, quiet, no loud talk!
Stand bent over, pale and dark,
Crouched up in a ball of pain,
Shut up—holding your breath in.
Out of the deep night
He’ll ride up on a white horse
Hear…
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Mani Leib
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1914
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Deep in the woods stands my tent,
No one will discover me,
Late at night and at first dawn,
I hear the revel of the spring
From the deep roots underneath,
To the moss-covered trunks,
From…
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Yehoash (Solomon Blumgarten)
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1914
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[ . . . ] However, the new Ha-Shiloaḥ will also be different from its predecessor in many important respects. Without a doubt, Hebrew literature has evolved and accomplished much over the past fifteen…
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Joseph Klausner
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1903
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Ahead of the first verses of the Eastern European Jewish poets, I would like to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, how much more Jargon [Yiddish] you understand than you believe you do.
I am not actually…
Contributor:
Franz Kafka
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Prague, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1912
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Tiberias, Land of Israel
(Tiberias, Israel)
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ca. 925
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You hold me now completely in your hands
My heart beats like a frightened little bird’s
Against your palm. Take heed! You do not think
A person lives within the page you thumb.
To you this book is…
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Gertrud Kolmar
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1932
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Just walk on, condemned to die!
in woods where winds and catscreams wail,
sentence in darkened lines
shall fall upon the pines;
hunchbacked with fear the road turns pale.
Just shrivel up, you…
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Miklós Radnóti
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Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1936
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The death of an artist is never a random event, but a last act of creation that seems to illuminate the whole of his life under a powerful ray of light. [ . . . ] Why are people surprised when poets…
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Nadezhda Mandelstam
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1970
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My soul sighs, fate brings only trouble.
My spirit was lifted, and I grew bold.
I heard a voice: ‘Your poem is gold.
Who has learned to sing like you, Rachel?’
My spirit in turn replies: I’ve lost…
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Rachel Luzzatto Morpurgo
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1847