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For my child, today, it is so easy
to make the awful discovery, that people kill
and are killed: both things and people
speak the language of the red angel.
My child asks me: Why are people being…
Contributor:
Aaron Zeitlin
Places:
Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1930s
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It was Rabbi Benish’s practice to say his afternoon and evening prayers by himself in his study. When the news reached his ears he hurried to the prayer house. But it…
Contributor:
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1935
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Lately, there’s no trace left
Of Yankl, son of Yitskhok,
But for a tiny round dot
That rolls crazily through the streets
With hooked-on, clumsy limbs.
The lord-above surrounded
The whole world with…
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Jacob Glatstein
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1921
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A visitor came to the shtetl,
A stranger, with unrest in his step . . .
No-one recognized his unrest. No-one asked him:
“Stranger, are you weary?”
Across the blue sky the evening drew its curtain…
Contributor:
Izi Charik
Places:
Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1924
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How can it be told in simple, quiet words?
How can you gloss over the sharp outcry
So that people will listen to it and be silent,
With mute eyes, even without a sigh?
Without a sigh, since every…
Contributor:
Alter-Sholem Kacyzne
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1925
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A mountain in the desert.
On the desert mountain—
Nine,
Nine tall men.
There must be something here—
The Nine want something here—
And the tenth man?
He stands at the head of them…
Contributor:
Aaron Zeitlin
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1926–1927
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About Grzhebin on canvas, about Grzhebin in the flesh. Since the letter is written in a penitent mood, the trademark of the Grzhebin Publishing House is affixed. Here too are several…
Contributor:
Viktor Shklovsky
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1923
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“May an unforeseen disaster
Overtake your worthy master,
The wagoner, Reb Benjamin,
And strike at you along with him.”
The horse was saying
to the whip and neighing,
“Did you ever
Hear of such a…
Contributor:
Eliezer Shteynbarg
Places:
Czernowitz, Kingdom of Romania (Chernivtsi, Ukraine)
Date:
1932
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Jews, let us be cheerful!
It won’t be long, don’t fear—
The war will soon be over.
Their end is very near.
Cheerful, don’t you worry.
Don’t go around so sad.
Have both hope and patience—
Bear things…
Contributor:
Mordecai Gebirtig
Places:
Kraków, General Government (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1940
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The word of the Lord came to me: O mortal, turn your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. Prophesy against him and say: Thus said the Lord God…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Biblical Period