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Samson and Delilah
Lola (Leon Israel)
1912
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Leon Israel was born in Pinsk (today in Belarus) and immigrated to New York in 1905. He worked as a cartoonist and illustrator under the pen name Lola for the Yiddish daily Der morgn-zhurnal, the satirical weekly Der groyse kundes, and the daily Forverts. Lola also made paintings, etchings, and murals, mostly of the Lower East Side and Brooklyn immigrant life.
I have my mother’s black hair and green eyes,
my father’s delicate thin hands
and blood that sings and flares,
blood of grandfathers—Jews along the Dnieper;
on my head, the many nights with friends
s…
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