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I was the one who began.
“Reb Arye-Leib,” I said to the old man. “Let’s talk about Benya Krik. Let’s talk about his lightning-quick beginning and his terrible end. Three shadows block the path of my…
Contributor:
Isaac Babel
Places:
Odessa, USSR (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1923
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On the eve of the Sabbath I am always tormented by the dense sorrow of memory. In the past on these evenings, my grandfather’s yellow beard caressed the volumes of Ibn Ezra. My old grandmother, in her…
Contributor:
Isaac Babel
Places:
Odessa, USSR (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1924
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Do you remember Zhitomir, Vasily? Do you remember the River Teterev, Vasily, and that night in which the Sabbath, the young Sabbath, crept along the sunset crushing the stars with the heel of her red…
Contributor:
Isaac Babel
Places:
Odessa, USSR (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1924
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The city of N. is built in three rings. First ring: the marketplace at the very center. Second: surrounding the market, the great city proper with its many houses, streets, byways, back…
Contributor:
Der Nister
Places:
Kharkov, USSR (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1939
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Day grows darker
And darker.
Mobs are advancing on the town,
Mobs clotted with blood,
Made remorseless by killing children,
Lustfully they advance,
To rip off heads,
Feeble, melancholy heads.
They…
Contributor:
Leyb Kvitko
Places:
Kyiv, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1919
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For some the now is good enough—
and that is fine for them!
But what shall I do
when I always
see before me
phosphorescent questions flashing:
Where?
Where to?
I am ready tired
of hovering,
of…
Contributor:
Dovid Hofshteyn
Places:
Kyiv, USSR (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
ca. 1919
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Hey, women, spotted with typhus and riddled with rakes of fingers
Across autumn heads of woe,
Are you fruitful? Do you multiply? How many times each?
In whorehouses? On floors?
In the stable? In…
Contributor:
Peretz Markish
Places:
Kyiv, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1920
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Out of frayed sackcloth—breasts of filthy cataracts,
Like raw potatoes, branched with rooted blue veins.
What shall we trade? Salt? How much do you want?
There’s a dead child’s hat still here.
In…
Contributor:
Peretz Markish
Places:
Kyiv, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1920
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Finally, a town. We ride through the shtetl of Tartakuv, Jews, ruins, cleanliness of a Jewish kind, the Jewish race, little stores.
I am still ill, I’ve still not gotten back on…
Contributor:
Isaac Babel
Date:
1920
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One of the most important things that the government has introduced in Russia to improve education among Jews is the decree that each community must choose a…
Contributor:
Berish Rozenblum, Menashe Margolis
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1864