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The Women’s Cause
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Gisèle Halimi’s “La Cause des Femmes” highlights and advocates for women's rights and gender equality. As a prominent feminist, lawyer, and activist, Halimi aimed to shed light on the struggles women.

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Gisèle Halimi

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Date:

1973

Subjects:

Women, Gender, Abortion, Justice system, Death

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries
Gisèle Halimi during the launch rally of the “Front de Gauche."
The Funeral’s Early...
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In Jewish folklore the sight of a water carrier bearing one or two full pails is an omen of good fortune; empty pails foretell bad fortune. The funeral’s early, the concert is late.I go to both (such…

Contributor:

Abraham Sutzkever

Places:

Tel Aviv, Israel

Date:

1975

Subjects:

Mourning, Burial, Death, Sex, Gender

Categories:

Poetry, Popular Poetry, Literature
Abishag
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Abishag. Little, young, warm Abishag. Shout into the street: King David is not yet dead. But King David wants to sleep and they won’t let him. Adoniyahu with his gang shout my crown off my gray head…

Contributor:

Jacob Glatstein

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New York City, United States of America

Date:

1926

Subjects:

Death, Music, Women, Gender, Mourning

Categories:

Literature, Poetry
Braendel
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[ . . . ] Braendel dragged the poor woman into the smoky room, which stank of sweat, beer, and wine, and cried out in a loud voice, “Aren’t you ashamed, you children of honest Jews, to drink and…

Contributor:

Alexandre Weill

Places:

Paris, French Empire (Paris, France)

Date:

1860

Subjects:

Rural life, Love, Death, Gender, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

Literature, Fiction