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For H. Leyvik
New York.
A white poet stood on the hundred-and-fourth floor.
The sky and an iron city
Engaged in a conversation.
A thirsty “forever” marched on
In bewildered
Disorganization.
New York…
Contributor:
Kadya Molodovsky
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1937
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That’s you—the Eternal Jew.
Of Esau’s lullaby, of Gentile legend.
And I am your nephew—Jud’ Süss Oppenheimer.
You, seer, who can see far, see clear, see through,
You may say that I—am not I,
That one…
Contributor:
J. L. Teller
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1937
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Let no one cross my threshold,
Nor disturb my silence;
I no longer wish to hear
The noise of people and speech
From them I crawled away
In tears, into my corner,
To listen at last in quiet
To the…
Contributor:
Mani Leib
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1930s
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“‘Do you want me to release to you your King of the Jews?’ asked Pilate of the multitude.
“‘What is that? What does he say?’
“‘The Procurator asks whom shall he release to you for the festival: Bar…
Contributor:
Sholem Asch
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1939
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On a wagon, bound for market
There’s a calf with a mournful eye
High above her, there’s a swallow
Winging swiftly through the sky
How the winds are laughing
They laugh with all their might
Laugh…
Contributor:
Aaron Zeitlin, Sholem Secunda
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1940
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The purpose of this book is to bring into focus the vast number and wide variety of data concerning Judaism and the Jews, so that they can be seen in relation to one another and to the…
Contributor:
Louis Finkelstein
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1949
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This is a book about East European Jews in crisis, challenge, and creativity from the end of the eighteenth century until their cataclysmic destruction in the Second World War.
In the sixteenth…
Contributor:
Lucy S. Dawidowicz
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1967
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Is Israel alone a dying nation? Numerous civilizations have disappeared before there emerged the one in which we live so happily and unhappily at the same time. Each dying civilization was confident…
Contributor:
Simon Rawidowicz
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1948
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[ . . . ] I look upon this humble beginning as a potentially significant step. It is the first nonsectarian university which becomes the corporate responsibility of the Jewish community in America…
Contributor:
Abram L. Sachar
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Waltham, United States of America
Date:
1948
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In considering Sartre’s conception of the Jew and his relation to anti-Semitism we must not forget that Reflections on the Jewish Question (published by Schocken as Anti-Semite and Jew) was written…
Contributor:
Harold Rosenberg
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1949