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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
The War of the Holy Days
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Now, my dear friends, do you see what you’re doing? The Holy Days indulged in arrogant boasting, in envy and hatred and warfare. Hanukkah tried to fight them all and carry the day…

Contributor:

Zalman Sofer

Places:

Oldendorf, Holy Roman Empire (Oldendorf, Germany)

Date:

1517

Subjects:

Holidays, Humor, Wisdom, Hanukkah, Passover

Categories:

Literature, Popular Poetry, Poetry
Sreyfe-lid (The Song about the Burning)
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Nothing else makes me really rage as when a poor man does something [wrong] he is lost here and there everyone would happily drink his blood. But what the rich do here is always all right people let…

Contributor:

Elye Bokher

Places:

Date:

1513

Subjects:

Social justice, Poverty, Crime, Holidays, Purim

Categories:

Literature, Popular Poetry, Poetry
Vilna
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Vilna, my great matriarch, an established Jewish city, Jerusalem of the Exile, an ancient nation’s consolation in the north! This [poem] is your patched kerchief, like the roof of the old synagogue,…

Contributor:

Zalman Shneour

Places:

Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1923

Subjects:

Diaspora, Cities, Synagogue, Holidays, Theology

Categories:

Literature, Poetry
Fall in Vilna
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Yom Kippur, when the narrow alleys of the shulhoyf cradle the small shtibls, pious and scared, householders hurry with their taleisim and old men shuffle along in their socks— I feel the narrow…

Contributor:

Chaim Grade

Places:

New York City, United States of America

Date:

Date unknown, mid-20th century

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Christian-Jewish relations, Holidays, Jewish quarters, Adolescence

Categories:

Literature, Poetry