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With God’s Help
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With God’s help I set myself the aim, And with God’s aid I hope to achieve the same. The holy book of Psalms in Taytsh [Yiddish] to make known, Hoping that all shall praise and extol God, blessed be…

Contributor:

Royzl bas Joseph Levi

Places:

Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

1586

Subjects:

Print, Poetry, Jewish languages, Yiddish

Categories:

Literature, Poetry, Liturgical Poetry
Auger Shaped
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I want to be a Pole. You have my word! I want to reach the peak of Polishness But I can find no way to manage: They always shout: “You’re a jew!” When I defend the jews from slander, Hoping to…

Contributor:

Leo Belmont

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1900

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Jewish languages, Assimilation, Christian-Jewish relations, Language and linguistics

Categories:

Literature, Poetry
Monish
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Life is like a river;we are fish.The water’s wholesome and freshand we would swim forever,but for a black figureon the riverbank.There Satan stands,in his handsa fishing rod,and catches fish.With a…

Contributor:

Y. L. Peretz

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1888 and 1908

Subjects:

Life cycle, Death, Jewish languages, Jewish identity, Adolescence

Categories:

Literature, Poetry