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Hanging her corals on the night she leaves
silent, possessing nothing.
A moon dives, a splash extinguished
in a wall of water.
Alone, just herself, the path
blown clean with white godhead
twists…
Contributor:
Yocheved Bat-Miriam
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1941
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The God of Israel is not rich.
I saw the Sistine Chapel,
Notre-Dame, the Cathedral of Cologne—
You can feast your eyes on them, you can enjoy.
The God of Israel is stingy.
He won’t fill his museum…
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A. Leyeles
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1943
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Hezekiah became king at the age of twenty-five, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; his mother’s name was Abijah daughter of Zechariah…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Persian Period, Late 6th–4th Century BCE
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Carnes:The farmer and the cowman should be friends,Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends.One man likes to push a plough,The other likes to chase a cow,But that’s no reason why they cain’t be…
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Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1943
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In sand and in water
You will yet raise expectant eyes,
Or eyes
As indifferent as death to machine-gun bullets and borders on maps.
Together with you
Yet another sought to escape
(At long last to…
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Noah Stern
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1943
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O God of Mercy
Choose—
another people.
We are tired of death, tired of corpses,
We have no more prayers.
Choose—
another people.
We have run out of blood
For victims,
Our houses have been turned into…
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Kadya Molodovsky
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1945
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1. “If you’re planting a tree and you hear Mashiah has come, first finish planting and then run to the city gates to tell him Shalom” (Yochanan Ben Zakkai).
Therefore: Plant a tree somewhere as a…
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Arthur Waskow
Places:
Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1973
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Benjamin came back with the same suitcase and the same few sets of underwear he had left with for Germany. He brought back everything—his illness included. The only thing he didn’t bring back were his…
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Joseph Buloff
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1972
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Two months after liberation, people had stopped cheering and embracing. They were not giving away food and clothing anymore, but selling it on the black market. Those who had compromised their…
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Heda Margolius Kovály
Places:
Boston, United States of America
Date:
1973
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The old man Moshe Sefardnick sits in the rear of the place on a camp stool. There is never any work for him to do and indeed he is too old for it, too bewildered. The old man has never been able to…
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Norman Mailer
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1948