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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…
Parable of the Old Man and the Young
by Wilfred Owen
So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,
And took the fire with him, and a knife.
And as they sojourned both of them together,
Isaac the first-born spake and said, My Father,
Behold the preparations, fire and iron,
But where the lamb for this burnt-offering?
Then Abram bound the youth with…