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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

Categories:

Literature, Poetry
The Wonder-Working Rabbi of Barcelona
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During the weeks that Eleazar spent in pious contemplation in old Asia, the people of Barcelona took pains to persecute the Jews. It was they, once again, who made it hard for Spanish merchants to…

Contributor:

Else Lasker-Schüler

Places:

Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1921

Subjects:

Hasidism, Rabbis, Angels, demons & deities, Christianity, Sephardic

Categories:

Literature, Fiction, Poetry