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Piyyut in Honor of R. Faradji Chaouat
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O our God! O our God!May Rabbi Frājī be with us.Come, people, and hear what happened   to Rabbi Frājī, how he passed on.He sent after the gozbar   and said to him “Come before us.”When the gozbar cam…

Contributor:

Makhlouf Nadjar

Places:

Sousse, French Protectorate of Tunisia (Sousse, Tunisia)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Arabic, Jewish languages, Poetry, Prayer & liturgy, Jewish identity

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Poetry
From Homer's The Iliad
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[ . . . ] I have striven to transmit exactly the course of thought, the spirit, and the expressions of the [original] text; thus, you have before you not a “reworking” but a true translation.I have…

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Max Weinreich

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1915

Subjects:

Poetry, Translation, Jewish languages, Yiddish

Categories:

Poetry
With God’s Help
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With God’s help I set myself the aim, And with God’s aid I hope to achieve the same. The holy book of Psalms in Taytsh [Yiddish] to make known, Hoping that all shall praise and extol God, blessed be…

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Royzl bas Joseph Levi

Places:

Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

1586

Subjects:

Print, Poetry, Jewish languages, Yiddish

Categories:

Poetry, Liturgical poetry
Dāniyāl-nāmah (The Book of Daniel)
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When the world wearies of day’s golden egg, Shabrang, the dark bay steed, appears From under the crow’s wings…

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Khwājah Bukhārā’īā

Places:

Bukhara, Khanate of Bukhara (Bukhara, Uzbekistan)

Date:

1606

Subjects:

Poetry, Theology, Bible, Jewish languages

Categories:

Biblical commentary, Poetry