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Over and over, when the wayside dust had grayed us,
And we came and knocked at another’s door,
He threatened us with his fist and gainsaid us:
This is not your place! Move on!
Over and over.
Over…
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Kurt Wolfskehl
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1934
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To be or not to be—that’s not the question.
Sense or nonsense—that’s my obsession.
For too long, Divine reckoning
has shredded human thinking.
The sum total of justice is a round number:
bright…
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Aaron Zeitlin
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1936
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And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.—Job 19:26O the chimneysOn the ingeniously devised habitations of deathWhen Israel’s body drifted as smokeThrough the…
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Nelly Sachs
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Stockholm, Sweden
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1947
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I hesitate to sound immodest,
So I must warn you in advance,
If you will listen now in earnest,
Then please excuse my stance.
More startling than other words,
And I will use this…
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Reuben Kulisher
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1849
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In the evening through her garden
Wanders the Alcalde’s daughter;
Festal sounds of drum and trumpet
Ring out hither from the castle.
“I am weary of the dances,
Honeyed words of adulation
From the…
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Heinrich Heine
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Göttingen, German Confederation (Göttingen, Germany)
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1827
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So since we are in the midst of writing a song,
We will write also about the destruction of the holy community of Kremzir,
Even though this happened five years before,
In the year 1643, on the 9th of…
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Joseph Lipman Ashkenazi
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Kremzir, Holy Roman Empire (Kroměříž, Czech Republic)
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1648
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…I remember a woman
who sat on the pot where the apples cooked in the cold
basement, her face black from smoke. And here, near this brick
building with a red tile roof, is one of our family, Mausha
V…
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Myra Sklarew
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Washington, United States of America
Date:
1995
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To thee I come, O long-abandoned god
Of early moons and unremembered days,
To thee whose reign was in a greener world
Among a race of men divine with youth,
Strong generations of the sons of earth:
T…
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Saul Tschernikovsky
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Heidelberg, Germany
Date:
1899
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Hear, O Israel!
Will you never tire of repeating in your prayers:
“Praised be the Eternal, who avengeth my injuries,
Who protecteth my rights, who supporteth me in need,
Who crusheth my foes, who…
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André Spire
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Paris, France
Date:
1907
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A searing poetic response to a 1916 survey, by Martha Gruening, a tireless advocate for women’s rights and African American rights.
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Martha Gruening
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1916