by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub sometimes I wish the sequence of thingscould have more closelyresembled the corpus of the Delft master—a series of moments of contemplation,delicate with import.framed by pale glow and white marble,how could my days not have assumed amantle of meaning?the sun flowing through the many diamond frameswould have illuminated my letters fromold friends and imagined beaus in warrens of anxiety.and I would…
by Shmuel Hanagid (born 993 – died after 1056) She said: “Be happy that God has helped you reach The age of fifty in this world,” not knowing That to me there is no difference between my life’s Past and that of Noah about whom I heard. For me there is only the hour in which I am present in this world: It stays for a moment and then like…
Click on the images above to see enlarged versions for easier viewing/reading. At the Sewing Machine (from Songs of the Ghetto) Poem by Morris Rosenfeld (1862-1923) with translation from Yiddish by Berthold Feiwel (1875-1937). Illustration by Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925). Berlin, Benjamin Harz Verlag ca. 1902. Collection of Yeshiva University Museum (1996.023). Gift of Michael Cohn. – A haunting image from the famed and…
Click on the text of the poem above to see an enlarged version for easier reading. The Voice at the Seder by Karl Wolfskehl. – Karl Wolfskehl was a German-Jewish poet with strong connections to German literary circles at the fin-de-siecle. He was a close friend of Stefan George and a member of a group of writers called the Munich Cosmic Circle. His later…