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Lamentations
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In a dingy kitchen Facing a Ghetto backyard An old woman is chanting Jeremiah’s Lamentations, Quaveringly, Out of a Hebrew Bible. The gaslight flares and falls . . . This night, Two thousand…

Contributor:

Alter Brody

Places:

New York City, United States of America

Date:

1918

Subjects:

Holidays, Tishah be-Av, Mourning

Categories:

Literature, Poetry
The Ninth of Ab
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August is flat and still, with ever-thickening green  Leaves, clipped in their richness; hoarse sighs in   the grass,    Moments of mowing, mark out the     lengthening summer. The ground We children…

Contributor:

John Hollander

Places:

New York City, United States of America

Date:

1965

Subjects:

Allegory, Theology, Jerusalem, Holidays, Tishah be-Av

Categories:

Literature, Poetry
Lamentations
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Alas! Lonely sits the city Once great with people! She that was great among nations Is become like a widow; The princess among states Is become a thrall. Bitterly she weeps in the night…

Places:

Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Biblical Period

Subjects:

Mourning, Jerusalem, Temple, Punishment, Tishah be-Av

Categories:

Poetry, Biblical Poetry, Literature