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Memorial for the Dead
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A Gift to Hofshteyn

Contributor:

Aharon Kushnirov

Places:

Kyiv, USSR (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1922

Subjects:

Violence, Mourning, Memorial, Family, Death, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry
We’re Laughing Our Heads Off
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We’re laughing our heads off: None of us wears a top-hat We just go around with heads—or without heads— But the Rabbi of Uman Holds up a mirror to the sun. We laugh our heads off When a gang comes…

Contributor:

Leyb Kvitko

Places:

Kyiv, USSR (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1923

Subjects:

Rabbis, Christian-Jewish relations, Antisemitism, Violence, Hasidism, Poetry

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Poetry
The Horse and the Whip
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“May an unforeseen disaster Overtake your worthy master, The wagoner, Reb Benjamin, And strike at you along with him.” The horse was saying to the whip and neighing, “Did you ever Hear of such a…

Contributor:

Eliezer Shteynbarg

Places:

Czernowitz, Kingdom of Romania (Chernivtsi, Ukraine)

Date:

1932

Subjects:

Animals, Labor, Violence, Poetry

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Poetry
Remember the Horn
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Quick! Help! Save a poor girl! A Hebrew servant girl screamed: Help me, merciful people, hurry and save me from this racing stag who runs with such a fury. Free my hands from his horns! The woman…

Contributor:

Sarah Shapira

Places:

Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)

Date:

1886

Subjects:

Allegory, Women, Class, Violence, Sexual violence, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry
The Mound
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 After you, the killed of the Ukraine;After you, butcheredIn a mound in Gorodishche,The Dnieper town . . .KaddishNo! Heavenly tallow, don’t lick my gummy beards.Out of my mouth’s brown streams of…

Contributor:

Peretz Markish

Places:

Kyiv, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1921

Subjects:

Violence, Mourning, Pogroms, Theology, Death, Poetry

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Poetry
Day Grows Darker
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Day grows darker And darker. Mobs are advancing on the town, Mobs clotted with blood, Made remorseless by killing children, Lustfully they advance, To rip off heads, Feeble, melancholy heads. They…

Contributor:

Leyb Kvitko

Places:

Kyiv, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1919

Subjects:

Violence, Adolescence, Death, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry
Song of My Indifference
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For some the now is good enough—and that is fine for them!But what shall I dowhen I alwayssee before mephosphorescent questions flashing:Where?Where to?I am ready tiredof hovering,of flickering,of…

Contributor:

Dovid Hofshteyn

Places:

Kyiv, USSR (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Date:

ca. 1919

Subjects:

Violence, Cities, Economic life, Death, Poetry

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Poetry