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Jewish Ethnopoetics
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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

Subjects:

Folklore, Jewish identity, Jewish languages, Nationalism, Poetry, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Science & philosophy
Lament of the Daughter of Judah
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O Russians, you who love your fellow men! You would shudder from the bottoms of your kind hearts if you saw the effect of that terrible accusation which Jews who were eyewitnesses to the unjustified…

Contributor:

Lev Nevakhovich

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1803

Subjects:

Antisemitism, Violence, Enlightenment, Christian-Jewish relations, Emancipation, Poetry, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Poetry
An Answer to the Slav
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I hesitate to sound immodest, So I must warn you in advance, If you will listen now in earnest, Then please excuse my stance. More startling than other words, And I will use this…

Contributor:

Reuben Kulisher

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1849

Subjects:

Antisemitism, Nationalism, War, Violence, Enlightenment, Poetry, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Poetry, Popular Poetry