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A Jewish musiker,
Alex Herzovitch,
wound his Schubert around and around
like diamonds.
Morning to night, happy, oh happy,
he ground out that same old
sonata, ground it by rote, ground it
to a…
Contributor:
Osip Mandelstam
Places:
Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1931
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The Russian Revolution initially encouraged a flowering of Jewish cultural activity, lifting restrictions on Jewish publishing. Jewish theater companies experimented with modernist approaches to stage…
Contributor:
Isaac Rabichev
Places:
Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1924
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Three Idlers [finish chanting]:Why, oh why,Did the soul descendFrom the highest heightTo the deepest end?The greatest fallContains the upward flight.[A long pause. All three sit motionless, lost in…
Contributor:
S. An-ski
Places:
Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1913–1917