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At the close of Independence Day 1972
a biplane plane rose
in the Tel-Aviv sky at dusk
and on its belly
moving lights flashed:
For health and pleasure eat plenty of poultry
Eat as you should…
Contributor:
Meir Wieseltier
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1973
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And after all the argumentation and consideration
The Jew will arise and speak to us:
“In our blessed country all voices of the Torah are at the doorway
And all lessons will captivate the hearts of…
Contributor:
Avigdor Hameiri
Places:
Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1910
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I know a forest and in that forest
I know a hidden pool:
In the denseness of the wood, isolated from the world,
In the shades of a lofty oak, blessed by light and accustomed to storm,
Alone she…
Contributor:
Chaim Nahman Bialik
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1904
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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
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This small volume which I now present to you, my fellow readers, is an offshoot of the numerous saplings that I have planted for myself over the course of many days, nay years; for ever…
Contributor:
Abraham Ber Gottlober
Places:
Józefów, Kingdom of Poland (Józefów, Poland)
Date:
1837
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A compilation containing all the techniques of poetry simply put; covering all the principles, meters, rhymes, correct methods, and true rules; sifted and clarified; solid as a bronze mirror, such…
Contributor:
Joshua Benveniste
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1635
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“Are you at peace? Hast thou killed and also taken possession?”
(examples of interrogative sentences in a grammar book)
Contributor:
Dan Pagis
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1982