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Once this was the heart of Warsaw—this labyrinth of sad narrow streets between tall tenement houses. Now this is a remote place, an ancient tumor on the body of the modern city, where its blood flows…
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Alter-Sholem Kacyzne
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1929
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The book’s name: This book [Song of Songs] is called a “song,” a noun bearing several meanings. First, it denotes music, as in the verse: all the daughters of song (Ecclesiastes 12:4), which means…
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Yoḥanan Alemanno
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ca. 1500
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Then did Moses and the Children of Israel sing this song (Exodus 15:1). Before we explain the words of this song, it is appropriate to clarify its poetic structure. I maintain that we, the Israelite…
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Isaac Abravanel
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Early 16th Century
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Israel is rejuvenated like the majestic
Eagle, in the Sapphire of faithfulness,
Flying in the goodness of observance,
Its gaze fixed on the…
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Daniel Levi de Barrios
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1688
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I shall recount the love of God, the faithful God,
I shall study his words, and prostrate myself to the formidable God, the Lord,
I shall walk in his paths, to the central land, my palace.
Happy…
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Amīnā
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Kashan, Safavid Iran (Kashan, Iran)
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1719/20
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Here is a song that I created,
well composed and uncomplicated;
you can call it a song or call it a dirge.
I’d like to tell you some of my troubles:
some men have problems by…
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Ḥayim Yom-Tob Magula
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
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ca. 1739
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To the wheel that turns the river’s waters
And brings them upward from the flowing deep,
I sing this song, a song to banish sorrow.
For all who love and cherish and desire
The ways of poetry and…
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Solomon Mazal Tov
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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Mid-16th Century
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A fountain surges from my verse’s house.
Its flowing waters quench the thirst of men—
A fountain from the rock of perfect rhyme,
With waters cold to please the yearning man—
A flow unending…
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Sa‘adia Longo
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
End of the 16th Century
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The gentlemen of the Mahamad [board of governors—Ed.] have received a letter from the very illustrious gentlemen of the Mahamad of the Holy Congregation of T: T: [Talmud…
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The Jewish Community of Curaçao
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Curaçao, Dutch Colonial Empire (Curaçao)
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1740
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To truly form a sense of good taste, one must be in full command of the metaphysics of the sacred tongue, something which is so necessary (and which…
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Anania Coen
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Firenze, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (Florence, Italy)
Date:
1827