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Midos
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A Jewish Wedding Deep in fields the klezmers can be heard Driving horses foaming at the mouth, Relatives, both poor and rich, arrive To Reb Sane’s daughter’s wedding feast. [ . . . ] But from a…

Contributor:

Alter-Sholem Kacyzne

Places:

Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1924

Subjects:

Marriage, Children, Death, Pogroms, Christianity

Categories:

Literature, Poetry
Magdalen
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All things I can endure, save one. The bare, blank room where is no sun; The parcelled hours; the pallet hard; The dreary faces here within; The outer women’s cold regard; The Pastor’s iterated “sin”…

Contributor:

Amy Levy

Places:

London, United Kingdom

Date:

1884

Subjects:

Christianity, Women, Sin, Prostitution, Death

Categories:

Literature, Poetry