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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
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