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The golden noon of the desert beats down silently
On the fields of sand.
Weary skies
Move palely
Over the stillness.
The sun’s step
Strides silently in golden shoes.
Camel footsteps cover the…
Contributor:
David Vogel
Places:
Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1916
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I saw my father drowning
In surging days.
His weak hand gave a last white flutter
In the distance—
And he was gone.
I kept on alone
Along the shore,
A boy still,
With small, thin legs,
And have…
Contributor:
David Vogel
Places:
Vienna, First Austrian Republic (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1923
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Day unto day bequeaths its fading sun,
and night after night laments for night.
Summer after summer is gathered in fall
and the world in its sorrow gives song.
Tomorrow we’ll die, the word in us…
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Avraham Ben-Yitzhak
Places:
Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1917
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Most of the way by tram till outside the city. Endless streets and alleys. But now the last stops come. Here’s the remise, the resting place of these tram cars, where they look like animals in…
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Gershom Shofman
Places:
Vienna, First Austrian Republic (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1920
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With gentle fingers
The rain is softly
Playing sad melodies
On the black instrument of night.
We are sitting in the darkness,
Each in his own house
(The children have fallen asleep)
Listening…
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David Vogel
Places:
Vienna, First Austrian Republic (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1923
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Thus I went to all the tsadikim and I heard what they say in secret, and I also took the letters that they or those who serve them sent to one another and they didn’t see, because by means of the…
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Joseph Perl
Places:
Vienna, Austrian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1819
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When night draws near your window, come to him naked.
Softly will he ripple and darken round your still beauty, touching the tips of your breasts.
I shall stand with him there, a stray wanderer…
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David Vogel
Places:
Vienna, First Austrian Republic (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1923
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Saul [upon returning from smiting the Amalekites]. Jonathan and his other sons.Saul:My fury still burns within my heart like a flame of fire!Even after I have smitten him, I have found no place…
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Joseph Ha-Efrati
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Vienna, Austrian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1826
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May He Who blessed our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Moses and Aaron, David and Solomon, bless this entire holy congregation together with all the holy congregations; they and their wives, their…
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Unknown
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1724
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Anyone who says that our Hebrew literature has developed, expanded, and been enriched over the past few years either errs or misleads. Or, perhaps, they demand very little from literature in general…
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Reuven Brainin
Places:
Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1894