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Memorial for the Dead
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A Gift to Hofshteyn

Contributor:

Aharon Kushnirov

Places:

Kyiv, USSR (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1922

Subjects:

Violence, Death, Mourning, Memorial, Family

Categories:

Literature, Poetry
Even the Heavens Tell Lies
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When I crossed the ocean, I carried with me the habit of speaking to the shadows, and it became my way of life. I look up at the stars that were extinguished long ago. For me they still shine with the…

Contributor:

Blume Lempel

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Date:

1970

Subjects:

Holocaust, Mourning, Violence, Family, Memory

Categories:

Literature, Fiction
The Mound
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 After you, the killed of the Ukraine;After you, butcheredIn a mound in Gorodishche,The Dnieper town . . .KaddishNo! Heavenly tallow, don’t lick my gummy beards.Out of my mouth’s brown streams of…

Contributor:

Peretz Markish

Places:

Kyiv, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1921

Subjects:

Violence, Mourning, Death, Pogroms, Theology

Categories:

Literature, Poetry
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

Categories:

Literature, Poetry
The Book of Jerusalem Journeys
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In 1930, Chaim Elazar Shapiro (Spira), the Hasidic rebbe of Munkacs, Czechoslovakia (today, Mukachevo, Ukraine), traveled by rail to Vienna and Trieste and by ship to Alexandria, where he and his…

Contributor:

Moshe Goldstein

Places:

Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)

Date:

1930

Subjects:

Lag b’Omer, Mourning, Rabbis, Zionism, Violence

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Travel Writing, Memoirs & Diaries
A Lament for Tyre
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The word of the Lord came to me: Now you, O mortal, intone a dirge over Tyre. Say to Tyre: O you who dwell at the gateway of the sea, Who trade with the peoples on many coastlands: Thus said the…

Places:

Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Biblical Period

Subjects:

Mourning, Gentiles, Violence, Economic life, Punishment

Categories:

Literature, Prophetic Literature, Biblical Poetry, Poetry