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Peter Harrison
Places:
Newport, British America and the British West Indies (Newport, United States of America)
Date:
1763
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The towering life of the towering city
Is burning in white fires.
And in the streets of the Jewish East side
The whiteness of the fires burns even whiter.
I like to stroll in the burning frenzy of…
Contributor:
H. Leivick
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1923
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Wide, open, free lay the land,
Extending to far horizons.
The sandy red tract stretches
Far and strange and lonely,
Bordered by low wild plants
And unknown herbs
With…
Contributor:
I. J. Schwartz
Places:
Lexington, United States of America
Date:
1925
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Abishag. Little, young, warm Abishag.
Shout into the street: King David is not yet dead.
But King David wants to sleep and they won’t let him.
Adoniyahu with his gang shout my crown off my gray head…
Contributor:
Jacob Glatstein
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1926
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Yom Kippur, when the narrow alleys of the shulhoyf
cradle the small shtibls, pious and scared,
householders hurry with their taleisim
and old men shuffle along in their socks—
I feel the narrow…
Contributor:
Chaim Grade
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
Date unknown, mid-20th century
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O quickly, Messiah, come quickly at last,
The world is engirdled with serpents, in vast
Poisonous circles of famine and care,
Terror and torment, decay and despair;
The earth has denied men the…
Contributor:
Avrom Reisen
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
Date unknown, 20th century
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Now, more than at any time in the history of our people, humor has a place in Jewish life. I was delighted to find the Jewish Publication Society in agreement with me that at the present time…
Contributor:
Samuel Felix Mendelsohn
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1941
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The anthologist, like the historian and the novelist, is an autobiographer is disguise. He is driven into the jungles and watering places of literature by instinct as well as by design. The ultimate…
Contributor:
Leo W. Schwarz
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1943
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That is how it is with the Jews. They shed many a tear for the past. That they fared better under liberalism does not guarantee the justice of the latter. Even the French Revolution, which helped the…
Contributor:
Max Horkheimer
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1939
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A fire is now sweeping over the whole Old World, threatening to annihilate, heaven forbid, more than two-thirds of the Jewish people. Nobody can guarantee that the fire, heaven…
Contributor:
Yosef Yitshak Schneersohn
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1941