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But Who Emptied Your Shoes of Sand
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But who emptied your shoes of sandWhen you had to get up, to die?The sand which Israel gathered,Its nomad sand?Burning Sinai sand,Mingled with throats of nightingales,Mingled with wings of butterflies…

Contributor:

Nelly Sachs

Places:

Stockholm, Sweden

Date:

1947

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Holocaust, Migration, Memorial, Death, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry
The Fire’s Victims
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Contributor:

Louis Gilrod, David Meyerowitz

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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1911

Subjects:

Memorial, Mourning, Cities, Migration, Death, Music, Performing arts, Poetry

Categories:

Performing Arts, Popular Poetry, Music
Page with Yiddish and English titles and drawing of fire engulfing building in center.
Jewish Graveyard Near Leningrad
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Jewish graveyard near Leningrad. Crooked fence of rotten plywood. Behind the fence lie side by side lawyers, merchants, musicians, and revolutionaries. For themselves they were singing. For…

Contributor:

Joseph Brodsky

Places:

Leningrad, USSR (St Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1958

Subjects:

Memorial, Labor, Burial, Death, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry
Seven Laments for the War-Dead
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1 Mr. Beringer, whose son fell at the Canal that strangers dug so ships could cross the desert, crosses my path at Jaffa Gate. He has grown very thin, has lost the weight of his son. That’s why he…

Contributor:

Yehuda Amichai

Places:

Jerusalem, Israel

Date:

1974

Subjects:

Mourning, War, Memorial, Death, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry, Popular Poetry
A Jewish Oud Player Entertains for Ramadan
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There will be a concert of an excellent music ensemble at the Aynalı Gazino next to Taksim Garden in Beyoğlu, from the first day of the holy Ramadan Feast and every Friday, Saturday…

Contributor:

Udi Misirli Ibrahim Efendi

Places:

Tunis, French Protectorate of Tunisia (Tunis, Tunisia)

Date:

1909

Subjects:

Mourning, Poetry, Ecology, Memorial, Death, Prayer & liturgy

Categories:

Prayer & Liturgy, Liturgical poetry
Memorial for the Dead
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A Gift to Hofshteyn

Contributor:

Aharon Kushnirov

Places:

Kyiv, USSR (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1922

Subjects:

Violence, Mourning, Memorial, Family, Death, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry