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Tofteh ‘arukh (Hell Arranged)
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What is this sound of tumult that I hear— Roaring of the sea, not burbling of the brook Like the roar of a lion or a tiger? I am in great danger and do not know If my time approaches when I must…

Contributor:

Moses Zacuto

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

Mid–17th Century

Subjects:

Afterlife, Sin, Punishment, Angels, demons & deities, Death, Performing arts, Poetry

Categories:

Popular Poetry, Theater/Drama
A Night in the Old Marketplace
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[Curtain]Narrator [entering and about to speak when he hears voices behind the scrim. Walking over, he peers through an opening in it]:How they weep, how they mourn,The wind-borne dead!No new…

Contributor:

Y. L. Peretz

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1908

Subjects:

Cities, Sin, Afterlife, Cemetery, Death, Performing arts

Categories:

Theater/Drama, Performing Arts