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But Who Emptied Your Shoes of Sand
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But who emptied your shoes of sandWhen you had to get up, to die?The sand which Israel gathered,Its nomad sand?Burning Sinai sand,Mingled with throats of nightingales,Mingled with wings of butterflies…

Contributor:

Nelly Sachs

Places:

Stockholm, Sweden

Date:

1947

Subjects:

Death, Jewish identity, Holocaust, Migration, Memorial

Categories:

Literature, Poetry
Jewish Graveyard Near Leningrad
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Jewish graveyard near Leningrad. Crooked fence of rotten plywood. Behind the fence lie side by side lawyers, merchants, musicians, and revolutionaries. For themselves they were singing. For…

Contributor:

Joseph Brodsky

Places:

Leningrad, USSR (St Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1958

Subjects:

Death, Memorial, Burial, Labor

Categories:

Literature, Poetry
Seven Laments for the War-Dead
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1 Mr. Beringer, whose son fell at the Canal that strangers dug so ships could cross the desert, crosses my path at Jaffa Gate. He has grown very thin, has lost the weight of his son. That’s why he…

Contributor:

Yehuda Amichai

Places:

Jerusalem, Israel

Date:

1974

Subjects:

Death, Mourning, War, Memorial

Categories:

Poetry, Popular Poetry, Literature
Memorial for the Dead
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A Gift to Hofshteyn

Contributor:

Aharon Kushnirov

Places:

Kyiv, USSR (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1922

Subjects:

Violence, Death, Mourning, Memorial, Family

Categories:

Literature, Poetry