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[ . . . ] And the Lieutenant-Captain was seriously tired of other people’s passports, of never-ending family names, from Ivanov to Chavchavadze, and of registration.
The barrister has been…
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Andrei Sobol
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Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1923
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Having risen from behind the Judean hills late at night, the moon illuminated the Yemenite neighborhood and the nearby bushland; it played a magical game there between the trees. It hid behind them…
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Neḥamah Pukhachewsky
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Rishon Lezion, Ottoman Palestine (Rishon LeZiyyon, Israel)
Date:
1911
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Daniel [Puts his hand on his forehead and thinks for a while]:The hours of the murderous Babylonian Empire are numbered; Nebuchadnezzar’s wicked family will soon be eradicated. Koresh, the Persian…
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Moses Leib Lilienblum
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1887
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Sinyor Moshe Weinstein, who has recently returned from Chile, a free republic in South America, relates upsetting things about the Jews of this country.
The number of Jews residing in Chile barely…
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Unknown
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Plovdiv, Ottoman Empire (Plovdiv, Bulgaria)
Date:
1903
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Hear my cry, O Lord,Treat Zion well, with favor, speedily.Have mercy, fight my battle for me,For they have turned Jerusalem into ruins.Long have I inhabited a foreign land,Afflicted with bloody…
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Isaac Samuel Modeano
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
End of the 17th Century
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My heart is seeking out the Lord, and to Almighty God I pray
That He come back unto the altar, shelter me beneath His shade,
And that He settle Israel’s throngs in a tranquil dwelling place.
In…
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Israel Najara
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Gaza, Ottoman Empire (Gaza, Palestine)
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Early 17th Century
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Laugh, laugh at all the dreams
I, the dreamer, declare them too.
Laugh that I have faith in mankind
And I still believe in you.
For my soul still yearns for freedom
I have not sold it for a calf of…
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Saul Tschernikovsky
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1894
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Jerusalem, our holy city, our soul’s yearning and the joy of our hope! Beautiful landscape, the joy of the entire land, if not the city of a great king (Psalm 48:1) . . . Now we cannot know how it was…
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Elhanan Leib Levinsky
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1892
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Zion my innocent one, Zion my desired,
To thee my soul yearns from far away;
May I forget my right hand should I forget thee, my beauty,
Until my grave is sealed upon me . . .
May my tongue cleave…
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Menachem Mendl Dolitzki
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1887
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I do not lift my supplicating hands,
O King, O Lord, O Father, yon on high,
To You whose throne dwells in the starry lands,
I neither plead nor yet Your might defy.
I do not ask of You to end my…
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Siegfried Kapper
Places:
Prague, Austrian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1846