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In haste
Quickly came the Americans.
This Bread
These emaciated faces
Of our ancestors in panic
From Hitler
All who are hungry may they walk and fear
All who are in need flee in trembling.
This…
Contributor:
Nissim ben Shimon
Places:
Rabat, French Protectorate in Morocco (Rabat, Morocco)
Date:
1943
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We Jews who live in the staid serenity of America have failed to grasp the immensity of the tragedy which has befallen our people and this failure is perhaps the greatest part of the tragedy. Were the…
Contributor:
Noah Golinkin, Jerome Lipnick, M. Bertram Sachs
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1943
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The Committee for the Consolidation of Hebrew Youth appeals to you only in order that you understand the very essence of what is in common between you and the rest of Hebrew youth, which operates in…
Contributor:
Yonatan Ratosh
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Israel)
Date:
1943
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With you, it is not impossible to define
creatures and things with the simplicity
of the fish whose scales streak the sea with blue and gold,
Or of the sea itself that swells with the gracefulness of…
Contributor:
César Tiempo
Places:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1933
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Yeshurun sings, when in him it sees a delicate beauty in the bloom of her youth
playing the lyre in her bosom’s embrace, her song gladdening the sorrowful heart.
A charming doe [even] without kohl…
Contributor:
David Saliman Tsemah
Places:
Baghdad, Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq (Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1933
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A Young Jew. The weed of their hatred which has grown so tall
now turns towards us many heads,
many pointed petals and leaves;
what did they whisper to each other before the ikons,
and smile at over…
Contributor:
Charles Reznikoff
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1934
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Spitting poison and frothing at the mouth
He spits, snorts and splutters
And writes that I am a butcher
A yid and bolshevik
Jewboy, bacillus
A baboon and a Skamandrite
That I sell out the Fatherland…
Contributor:
Julian Tuwim
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1934
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Over and over, yes, over and over,
I shook the pinions of my anger,
Again and again you broke faith with me,
And I stormed at your crop of iniquity.
But over and over, and over and over,
Your songs…
Contributor:
Kurt Wolfskehl
Places:
Kingdom of Italy (Italy)
Date:
1934
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I am a circus lady
And dance among the daggers
Set in the arena
With their points erect.
My swaying, lissome body
Avoids a death-by-falling,
Touching, barely touching the dagger blades.
Holding…
Contributor:
Celia Dropkin
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1935
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The first man, Adam, lies in the grass,
And spits at a passing cloud,
Humbly, the cloud says, “Adam,
Please, would you cut that out.”
But Adam sticks out his tongue
And…
Contributor:
Itzik Manger
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1935