Parable of the Old Man and the Youngby 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 belts and straps,and builded parapets and trenches…
Image: For the Child Who is Unable to Inquire, Thou Shalt Explain the Whole Story of Passover (Seder plate). Harriete Estel Berman. Steel, tin, plexiglas, sterling silver, brass. Yeshiva University Museum. – A Newborn Girl at Passoverby Nan Cohen Consider one apricot in a basket of them.It is very much like all the other apricots–an individual already, skin and seed. Now think of this…
Marianne Rein. Click on images for larger views.Images: Photographs of her in the 1930s; an illustration she did in one of her letters to Jacob Picard; a letter to Jacob Picard; a typed page of her poems; a letter from the National Council of Jewish Women; and a handwritten page of her poems—the second of which is translated below. Europaby Marianne Rein The girls walked…
Contemplating Hellby 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 flowers as large as trees, wilting, of course, Very…