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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.
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The Voice at the Seder by Karl Wolfskehl.
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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
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“Homeward” by P. M. Raskin was published in The Maccabaean in May 1917.
As Naomi W. Cohen explains in her article “The Maccabaean’s Message: A Study in American Zionism Until World War I” (Jewish Social Studies, Vol. 18, No. 3, July 1956, p. 163):
“Four years after the…
At the Café
by Anna Margolin
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Alone in the café now,
as voices hush and fade,
as lamps give off a pearly glow
and float out of the café
and over the street—
like luminous swans.
—Waiter, black coffee—demitasse!
Alone in the café now,
with moments rustling like silk,
I raise my dusky fragrant wine
to the street, to the distance.
And like…