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Daughter of Babylon
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Return to your ancient past Aid your sister with education and culture And people of Israel will once more be a nation. Awake, daughter of Babylon, mother of knowledge Take up in your hand the pen…

Contributor:

Salim Yitshak Nissim

Places:

Baghdad, Mandatory Iraq (Baghdad, Iraq)

Date:

1921

Subjects:

Women, Exile, Israel/Israelis, Jewish languages, Theology

Categories:

Literature, Poetry
For the Sixtieth Jubilee of the Poet Hayyim Nahman Bialik
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Yeshurun sings, when in him it sees a delicate beauty in the bloom of her youth playing the lyre in her bosom’s embrace, her song gladdening the sorrowful heart. A charming doe [even] without kohl…

Contributor:

David Saliman Tsemah

Places:

Baghdad, Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq (Baghdad, Iraq)

Date:

1933

Subjects:

Music, Dress, Women, Poets, Poetry

Categories:

Literature, Poetry
The National Movement
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Arise, shine, for thy light is come, Shake thyself from the dust Unlock the lock on your neck Be saved from your enemy. Awaken, get out of thy exile Rise up from your degradation Wake up from your…

Contributor:

Aharon Sason

Places:

Baghdad, British Mandate Iraq (Baghdad, Iraq)

Date:

1929

Subjects:

Exile, Jewish languages, Ecology

Categories:

Literature, Poetry
Jeshurun
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Jeshurun sings when they see him Tender beauty in her youth She plays and her violin is on her bosom And its singing brings gladness to the heart of the gloomy An unadorned graceful gazelle Embellish…

Contributor:

David Saliman Tsemah

Places:

Baghdad, Mandatory Iraq (Baghdad, Iraq)

Date:

1932

Subjects:

Music, Dress, Women, Israel/Israelis

Categories:

Literature, Poetry