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The Third Cry in Anguish in Salonika
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My feet walk the streets of this blessed city, Only yesterday full of faithful adherents of Sinai. My eyes do not have the courage to look up. The bitterness of my soul is great, O Holy God! I…

Contributor:

Yehuda Haim Aaron HaCohen Perahia

Places:

Salonika, Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1943

Subjects:

Cities, Theology, Holocaust, Mourning, Eschatology

Categories:

Poetry, Memoirs & diaries
A Dirge for the Ninth of Av
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Let us chant, my brothers, this dirge together, for God severed our hands by this disaster.

Contributor:

Unknown

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

ca. 1827

Subjects:

Violence, Mourning, Family, Prayer & liturgy

Categories:

Poetry