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All along the street, on both sides, on the lowest floor of the houses there are a multitude of stores, large and small. The majority of them are pressed into holes so narrow as to allow passage for…
Contributor:
Ben-Avigdor
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1891
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He then returned to his city, filled with bitterness, humiliated, oppressed, and weak. He found his wife Ḥaya—who had been a picture of robust health and womanly valor when he had set out on his…
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Yosef Haim Brenner
Places:
Russian Empire (Belarus, Belarus)
Date:
1900
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Quick! Help! Save a poor girl!
A Hebrew servant girl screamed:
Help me, merciful people, hurry
and save me from this racing stag
who runs with such a fury.
Free my hands from his horns!
The woman…
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Sarah Shapira
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1886
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Struck out of dim fluctuant forces and shock of electrical vapour,
Repelled and attracted the atoms flashed mingling in union primeval,
And over the face of the waters far heaving…
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Mathilde Blind
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1889
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Dramatic poem by Angiolo Orvieto Music by Giacomo Orefice
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Angiolo Orvieto
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Florence, Kingdom of Italy (Florence, Italy)
Date:
1905
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Everyone loved . . . it was a plague
of infatuation, of kisses;
But the people soon became quiet,
the mothers were already nursing.
The drum of youth was laid
in the corner, and the…
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Jacob Steinberg
Places:
Bern, Switzerland (Switzerland)
Lucerne, Switzerland (Switzerland)
Date:
1909
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And after all the argumentation and consideration
The Jew will arise and speak to us:
“In our blessed country all voices of the Torah are at the doorway
And all lessons will captivate the hearts of…
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Avigdor Hameiri
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1910
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Joyous, free, the bird will sing,
Trembles on his throne the king,
Trembling is not good for me—
Like a bird I sing so free,
As winds prance,
In a trance,
Wild and blind, I roam and dance,
One street…
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Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1911
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Alexander Baerwald
Places:
Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
ca. 1912