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As on this month’s last day,
the moon is waning,
make my sins wane, O Lord,
my merits flourish.
I know my heart is hard—
a wicked web whose threads are sin—
and I deserve the fire
for weaving wrong…
Contributor:
Leone Modena
Places:
Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
17th Century
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Here is the infamous [city] gate,
the one of the olive branch and the sword,
for those who leave, it is so closed
and for those who enter, so open.
If in you peace is exiled
you cannot offer that…
Contributor:
João Pinto Delgado
Places:
Antwerp, Dutch Republic (Antwerp, Belgium)
Date:
17th Century
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At the time when the florid season,
joyful springtime of life,
the tender infancy of its ardent age,
made its first step in the Orient
placing flower before Aprils
to my first juvenile…
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Diego Basurto Henríquez
Places:
Rouen, France
Date:
1649
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Beer Sheva, Land of Israel (Tel Be'er Sheva, Israel)
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Biblical Period
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A simple four-syllable poem, where each of the four members of the line has four tenu‘ot, with no yated. In some of them, the members do not rhyme…
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Immanuel Benevento
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1547
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The Argument of the Sermon: The sermon in its main argument will open…
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Judah Moscato
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1588
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Belonging to Gealyahu son of the king.
Translated by Nahman Avigad and Benjamin Sass.
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Beth Zur, Land of Israel (Khirbat Ţubayqah, West Bank)
Date:
End of 7th–Beginning of 6th Century BCE
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From the balcony, Fuad was heard to groan, “That’s all we need today. Ya rab, that’s all we need.”
Shoshana was frightened. “What’s happened?”
“Come see.”
Her two sons hurried before her. Over their…
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Sami Michael
Places:
Haifa, Israel
Date:
1977
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During the night I have a vision of bedbugs in congress. A concrescence of male and female. The polluted mass pulsates, masculine organs pullulate, grow into dangerous spikes that, blinded by passion…
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Clive Sinclair
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1982
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I had a very unusual fifteenth birthday. During my birthday week, the end of April, I was traveling with 5,000 high school students from around the world, visiting concentration camps in Poland. I…
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Dara Horn
Places:
Short Hills, United States of America
Date:
1992