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Lament on the Ukrainian Massacre
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[To the tune of “Adir ayom ve-nora.”]Come, dear friends, let us cry and lamentThe horrible things that have happened in these times.In the year that Messiah was expected amid tribulation [1648],Cossa…

Contributor:

Joseph Lipman Ashkenazi

Places:

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Poland)

Date:

1648

Subjects:

Pogroms, Death, Antisemitism, Mourning, Rabbis

Categories:

History, Music, Popular Poetry
The Mound
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 After you, the killed of the Ukraine;After you, butcheredIn a mound in Gorodishche,The Dnieper town . . .KaddishNo! Heavenly tallow, don’t lick my gummy beards.Out of my mouth’s brown streams of…

Contributor:

Peretz Markish

Places:

Kyiv, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1921

Subjects:

Violence, Mourning, Death, Pogroms, Theology

Categories:

Literature, Poetry