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Jacob’s Ladder, painted by Grobman after immigrating to Israel, continues the artistic approach he formulated in the 1960s in the Soviet Union—i.e., “magical symbolism,” which used mystical imagery…
Contributor:
Mikhail Grobman
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1978
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God’s grace has surely been overabundant.
Riches were mine. Hardly a day would pass
When human sympathy did not alight on me
Like manna from the sky.
I cupped my slender fingers to receive it
Ironic…
Contributor:
Yuli Daniel
Places:
USSR (Russia)
Date:
1969
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The death of an artist is never a random event, but a last act of creation that seems to illuminate the whole of his life under a powerful ray of light. [ . . . ] Why are people surprised when poets…
Contributor:
Nadezhda Mandelstam
Places:
Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1970
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Dedicated to my sister and friend Sarah Rappoport
A people’s poetry depicts, vividly and in clear relief, the hidden inner world of national life, to which we are admitted neither by the pen of the…
Contributor:
S. An-ski
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1908
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Future [Tsukunft], first compilation. Published by Tsukunft, St. Petersburg (1913).
Ben-Ami, Big Fayvl and Little Fayvl (a short story). Published by Far undzere kinder…
Contributor:
Boris Kletzkin
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1913