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On the roads of Siberia
Someone may still uncover a button, a lace
Of my torn shoe,
A leather belt, a shard of a clay mug,
A page of the holy book.
On the rivers of Siberia
Someone may still…
Contributor:
H. Leivick
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1918
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Yakhne-Brayne [Reading slowly and with difficulty so that the words run together in a monotone.]:“And God caused the Temple to be destroyed and said, ‘I will remember your sins and you will devour…
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David Pinski
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1906
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The world is wicked. To us Jews—of course and of course. And if we are facing destruction, we must be ready, we must be armed against destruction. Fascism wants to exterminate us. It is a war on death…
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Joseph Opatoshu
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1938
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A man over eighty is seated at his desk, looking up at an old picture, one more than fifty years old. His eyes meet with those of a beautiful old woman, a woman who was born a…
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Zvi Hirsch Masliansky
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1924
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[ . . . ] [T]here was a lecture in the big union hall on the topic of Soviet food policy. The wife of our protagonist also wanted to go and listen. You didn’t…
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Abraham J. Zhitnik
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Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1925
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Once, at night, after the seven days of mourning, while I lay on the sacks dozing, someone came to me, the Evil One himself, and said to me, “Gimpl, why are you sleeping?”
“What should I be doing,” I…
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1945
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In what sense is Judaism racist? Does it in general recognize the “holiness” of race and if so, what practical deductions have Jews made from such a theory?
In connection with the Nazi racist…
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Hayim Greenberg
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1945
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A new world being made—one hears
In childhood that it has begun;
Then comes the passage of the years—
Is it not yet fully done?
The new world being made—always,
From childhood on—and on the day
The…
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Avrom Reisen
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New York City, United States of America
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Date unknown, 20th century
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These letters have been selected from thousands in a similar vein which it has been the privilege of the editor to peruse. They were forwarded to him from all sections of the country. The…
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Isaac E. Rontch
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1945
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[ . . . ] If against the assimilationist the American spirit affirms the right to be different, against the segregationist it affirms the right of free association of the different with one another…
Contributor:
Horace M. Kallen
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1942