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Worker’s Song
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 Written down while working in the fields, patterned after the Arabic working song and sung to that tune.O I have my life and my labor!Yah ḥai li, li-hah-‘amali!Awaken, my brothers, there’s no time…

Contributor:

Bar-Nash (Noah Shapiro)

Places:

Zikhron Ya'akov, Ottoman Palestine (Zikhron Ya‘aqov, Israel)

Date:

1895

Subjects:

Labor, Class, Jewish identity, Economic life, Music, Performing arts, Poetry

Categories:

Performing Arts, Music, Popular Poetry
The Joke
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The body of a weary man is primed like an ambulance Adrenaline charges through his hot blood. I will go mad if we don’t end this now. Bizarre how a man so blind with bits of coal Can strike so…

Contributor:

David Avidan

Places:

Tel Aviv, Israel

Date:

1950

Subjects:

Mourning, Humor, Class, Death, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry, Humor & Satire
The Cobbler’s Song
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Shlomo reclines within his shrine Woe to my days, woe to my nights Everyone knows how he is Nobody knows about me Woe to my days, woe to my nights As if it means something to anybody. If I have a…

Contributor:

Nathan Alterman

Places:

Tel Aviv, Israel

Date:

1963

Subjects:

Class, Labor, Israel/Israelis, Music, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry, Popular Poetry, Music
Clockwork Doll
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That night, I was a clockwork doll and I whirled around, this way and that, and I fell on my face and shattered to bits and they tried to fix me with all their skill. Then I was a proper doll once…

Contributor:

Dahlia Ravikovitch

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Date:

1959

Subjects:

Sexual violence, Women, Class, Adolescence, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry