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Lament on the Ukrainian Massacre
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[To the tune of “Adir ayom ve-nora.”]Come, dear friends, let us cry and lamentThe horrible things that have happened in these times.In the year that Messiah was expected amid tribulation [1648],Cossa…

Contributor:

Joseph Lipman Ashkenazi

Places:

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Poland)

Date:

1648

Subjects:

Pogroms, Antisemitism, Mourning, Rabbis, Death, Music, Poetry

Categories:

Music, Popular Poetry
We’re Laughing Our Heads Off
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We’re laughing our heads off: None of us wears a top-hat We just go around with heads—or without heads— But the Rabbi of Uman Holds up a mirror to the sun. We laugh our heads off When a gang comes…

Contributor:

Leyb Kvitko

Places:

Kyiv, USSR (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1923

Subjects:

Rabbis, Christian-Jewish relations, Antisemitism, Violence, Hasidism, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry