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Hear, O Israel
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Hear O Israel, in the depths of our home There lives alone the empty room What will we do with it, that empty room What will we do with it, that empty room Shall we enter and shove ourselves between…

Contributor:

Rivka Miriam

Places:

Jerusalem, Israel

Date:

1994

Subjects:

Prayer & liturgy, Family, Mourning, Death, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry, Popular Poetry
A Dirge for the Ninth of Av
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Let us chant, my brothers, this dirge together, for God severed our hands by this disaster.

Contributor:

Unknown

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

ca. 1827

Subjects:

Violence, Mourning, Family, Prayer & liturgy, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry
In Which World?
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A choked wail . . . Mama paces around the narrow room as though asking for something, her hands grasping her head and striking her heart, and with sobs caught in her throat, she calls out:“Woe unto me…

Contributor:

Dvora Baron

Date:

1911

Subjects:

Children, Family, Prayer & liturgy, Mourning, Death

Categories:

Children & young adult literature