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A messenger’s coming to you today.
I’m the one who sent him.
He’s bringing a bag of gifts.
Don’t bolt the door on him.
He’s bringing a bag of gifts.
I collected and watched them.
He’ll lay them at…
Contributor:
Yosef Rolnik
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1915
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In his malodorous brain what slugs and mire,
Lanthorned in his oblique eyes, guttering burned!
His body lodged a rat where men nursed souls.
The world flashed grape-green eyes of a foiled cat
To him…
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Isaac Rosenberg
Places:
Cape Town, South Africa
Date:
1916
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Day unto day bequeaths its fading sun,
and night after night laments for night.
Summer after summer is gathered in fall
and the world in its sorrow gives song.
Tomorrow we’ll die, the word in us…
Contributor:
Avraham Ben-Yitzhak
Places:
Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1917
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Oh white spirit—
My princess!
The spring rips,
Tears at your dress.
The air is full of spring’s fame
Crowned with florets
Carrying its perfume
Spring’s fresh scents.
Bringing your death,
My white…
Contributor:
Celia Dropkin
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1917
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A wall.
A blunt wall of human backs, arms, legs.
A gray bulwark with white round stains.
A defeated army in a cave, before maneuvers,
Waiting for doors to open.
Not cages unlatched, in uproar.
No…
Contributor:
A. Leyeles
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1918
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Moses, from whose loins I sprung,
Lit by a lamp in his blood
Ten immutable rules, a moon
For mutable lampless men.
The blonde, the bronze, the ruddy,
With the same heaving blood,
Keep tide to the…
Contributor:
Isaac Rosenberg
Places:
France, France
Date:
1918
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The whole day
In the roads’ realm
The whole day
Facing only wind
Just a narrow ditch between road and shoulder
Just young lids between sun and eye
What in the world
Can be more beautiful?
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Contributor:
Dovid Hofshteyn
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Russian Empire (Ukraine, Ukraine)
Date:
1925
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Sheyndele:Mother-in-law . . . I want you to know what all of us in this household really feel. You’re getting old. It’s time for you to take a rest. And besides, frankly, you hold the entire estate in…
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Jacob Gordin
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1898
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A street. At the right the entrance to the synagogue, with steps and a portico. At the left the house of Aaron, before which are some chairs, in the shade of an awning. Some trees and…
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Herman Heijermans
Places:
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date:
1898
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Manke:Wait, let’s signal Rivkele quietly. [Basha and Reyzl exit. Manke takes a stick and very softly taps a corner of the ceiling. We can hear the girls outside hopping around in the puddles, taking…
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Sholem Asch
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1907