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How and with what will you fill
Your cup on the day you’re free?
Will you in your joy still
Hear the scream of the past
Where the skulls of chained days
Clot in bottomless pits?
Searching…
Contributor:
Abraham Sutzkever
Places:
Wilno, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1943
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In the year 5594 (1834) it was the Ninth of Av, the holy day commemorating the Destruction of the Temple. In the morning, when the worshipers were lamenting at the…
Contributor:
Isaac Meyer Dik
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1868
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This morning I met Vaclav on the street.
“God himself has arranged our meeting,” he continued after the usual greetings and inquiries about health. “Walking here, I thought of you.”
“Might I be able…
Contributor:
Lev Levanda
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1871–1873
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Awake, my people! How long will you slumber?
The night has passed, the sun shines bright.
Awake, lift up your eyes, look around you—
Acknowledge, I pray you, your time and your place. . . .
The…
Contributor:
Judah Leib Gordon
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1866