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I am Mani Leyb, whose name is sung—
In Brownsville, Yehupets, and farther, they know it:
Among cobblers, a splendid cobbler; among
Poetical circles, a splendid poet.
A boy straining over the…
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Mani Leib
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1932
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Moses Reinblatt
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Montreal, Canada
Date:
1945
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Benedetto Frizzi
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Trieste, Habsburg Empire (Trieste, Italy)
Date:
1784
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Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah, the so-called “Days of Awe” arrived.
There was no Jew in all of Bom Retiro who, God forbid, would ever think of not observing them. Any endeavor, no matter how important…
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Eliezer Levin
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São Paulo, Brazil
Date:
1972
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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…
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Joseph Brodsky
Places:
Leningrad, USSR (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1958
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On the preservation of one’s health when going to sleep and upon awakening. Our master, of blessed memory, wrote the following in laws 4 and 5 [Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Sefer ha-mada, hilkhot de‘ot…
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Jacob Tsahalon
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Ferrara, Papal States (Ferrara, Italy)
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1683
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Scene: A small garret room. A door is set in a deep recess at the back; there is another door at right. It is night. Several small children are bedded on wooden benches, and several more are asleep in…
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Mark Arnshteyn
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1905
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- To perform their work in the workshop for three complete years from the day of their entry, not to cease at all during this tenure, and not to be hired by another artisan, neither as an apprentice nor…
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Sha‘are Torah Technical School
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Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Jaffa, Israel)
Date:
1907
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Laboring women, suffering women
Women who languish in factory and home—
Why stand at a distance, why build not our temple
Of humanity’s joy, and of freedom sublime?
Help us to bear the red banner…
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Dovid Edelstadt
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1891
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I have been considering for a long while responding with my opinion on the law and the truth concerning occasional improper events that occur thus. For years wars have raged between kings, as is well…
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Raphael Samuel ben Jacob Arditti
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1890/91