Contemplating Hell
by Bertolt Brecht
Contemplating Hell, as I once heard it,
My brother Shelley found it to be a place
Much like the city of London. I,
Who do not live in London, but in Los Angeles,
Find, contemplating Hell, that it
Must be even more like Los Angeles.
Also in Hell,
I do not doubt it, there exist these opulent gardens
With…
On Sunday, April 15th, the partners of the Center for Jewish History will host a second-hand book sale from 11am to 4pm.
The sale will include duplicate copies and “out-of-scope” work from the partners’ collections.
Discover used books about Jewish and general history, literature, art, biographies, religion and other related topics. Authors include Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Itzik Manger, Chaim Grade and many…
Untitled poem written in Theresienstadt ghetto
Author Unknown *
Today, I saw a thousand people with distraught expressions
Today, I saw a thousand people walking towards nothingness
In the grey of the cold morning, wandered the ostracized crowd
Leaving everything behind which they once called their life.
They walked through the gate
And left all the joy, happiness, prestige outside.
Where will this…
The New Collosus
by Emma Lazarus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities…