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Song for Simkhes Toyre
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Our God is one. You are my God:     Hallelujah! Who created me, body and soul:      Hallelujah! You created Heaven and earth:      Hallelujah! We will praise You forever:      Hallelujah! You…

Contributor:

Rebecca Tiktiner

Places:

Tykocin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Tykocin, Poland)

Date:

Second Half of the 16th Century

Subjects:

Holidays, Simḥat Torah, Prayer, Women, Piety

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Prayer & Liturgy, Literature, Poetry
Until the End
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From the cradle to the grave, A heavy burden crushes us . . . Constrains the mind, destroys our strength, Wreathes our brow with thorns . . . And yet, with amazing power Our lips run along the…

Contributor:

Aleksander Kraushar

Places:

Russian Empire (Poland, Poland)

Date:

1890

Subjects:

Assimilation, Nationalism, Prayer, Life cycle, Death

Categories:

Literature, Poetry
Paper Cut—Mizraḥ
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Paper cuts have been a tradition of Jewish folk art, with the earliest record of one dating to the fourteenth century. Given the widespread availability of paper in Europe by the mid-nineteenth…

Contributor:

Moses Michael Rosenboim

Places:

Schönlanke, Kingdom of Prussia (Trzcianka, Poland)

Date:

1848

Subjects:

Ashkenazi, Art, Prayer, Ritual object, Crafts

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Folklore, Ritual Objects, Literature
Papercut featuring angels, baskets of flowers, pair of lions holding two Hebrew tablets in center, various animals, and instruments, surrounded by decorative border.
Whither?
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I see his melancholy profile as though through a mist, through the curtain of thick cloud that descended on him in his lifetime and darkened his bright trail with a multitude of vain fictions and will…

Contributor:

Mordekhai Feierberg

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1899

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Synagogue, Community, Prayer, Mental illness

Categories:

Literature, Fiction, Religion & Theology