Showing Results 1 - 7 of 7
Restricted
Text
The fable tells us
that the Jews bought for themselves
a private place in hell.
In the first circle,
seated on a wooden bench,
Karl Marx fans himself with his hand.
The prophet Jeremiah
fights off…
Contributor:
Isaac Goldemberg
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1973
Categories:
Restricted
Text
The Dark Ages are looming. Do you hear, feel it, person of feeling,
The whisper of the dust slowly creeping, the distant smell of Sulphur?—
And that anguish fading in the air, the heart and the…
Contributor:
Shneur Zalman of Liady
Places:
Date:
1913
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Image
The object of this publication, an Ethiopian text, is taken from a book of Falasha prayers which I acquired from Dabtarà Bàrok, a Jewish man of letters, in Adenkato. It contains the…
Contributor:
Jacques Faïtlovitch
Places:
Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1906
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Jeremiah:Not now the time for beginnings. The end draws nigh.
The Mother:It is time! It is time! Long since have you grown to manhood. The house has need of a wife, and of children to raise up seed…
Contributor:
Stefan Zweig
Places:
Vienna, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1917
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Excerpts from The Death of Moses, a legendary account of the death of Moses from the literature of the Beta Israel community, in Arabic and Ge’ez, researched by scholar Jacques Faïtlovich in Ethiopia.
Places:
Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1906
Categories:
Restricted
Text
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.—Job 19: 26
O the chimneys
On the ingeniously devised habitations of death
When Israel’s body drifted as smoke
Th…
Contributor:
Nelly Sachs
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
(Stockholm, Sweden)
Date:
1947
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
The bell pursues me. It is time to die.
It is the hour when no man works. I feel
My time fill up with leaves like a dry well
With many autumns over it, leaves that I
Leave to sigh in the ears of my…
Contributor:
Allen Grossman
Places:
Waltham, United States of America
Date:
1957