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Now, when my vision turns in on itself,
My shocked eyes open, all their members see
My heart has fallen like a mirror on
A stone and shatters, ringing, into splinters.
Certainly, not every shard is…
Contributor:
Peretz Markish
Places:
Kúibyshev, USSR (Samara, Russia)
Date:
1943
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Never, before the war, had Viktor thought about the fact that he was a Jew, that his mother was a Jew. Never had his mother spoken to him about it—neither during his childhood, nor during his years as…
Contributor:
Vasily Grossman
Places:
Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1960
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I have studied the science of leaving
in night’s unbraided sorrows.
Oxen ruminate—the waiting lingers to the final
hour of the city’s vigil—and I honor rituals
from that other night—the rooster…
Contributor:
Osip Mandelstam
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1917
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The Russian Revolution initially encouraged a flowering of Jewish cultural activity, lifting restrictions on Jewish publishing. Jewish theater companies experimented with modernist approaches to stage…
Contributor:
Isaac Rabichev
Places:
Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1924