Tag: Jewish Poetry
December 7, 1831: Judah Leib Gordon, the native of Vilnius also known as Leon...
(1831–1892), the most important Hebrew poet of the nineteenth century; leading figure of the Russian Haskalah movement. Yehudah Leib Gordon was born in Vilna in 1831 and started writing Hebrew poetry at a young age. He soon became close...
July 31, 1919: Primo Levi, Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor, was born
Italian Jewish chemist Primo Levi survived a year at Auschwitz against all odds. He is best known for his moving memoirs 'If This Is a Man' and 'The Periodic Table.'
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Born on July 31, 1919,...
July 17, 1921: Hannah Szenes, a member of the Jewish resistance against Nazism, was...
Hannah Senesh (originally Szenes) was a paratrooper trained to rescue Jews during the Holocaust. Captured and killed by the Nazi's, she is still a national heroine in Israel.
Through her brief but noteworthy life, Senesh...
I… Una otra estreya se arrezvalo en el firmamento
Tres anyos pasaron ! Kuando pasaron, komo pasaron ? A mi edad todo pasa tan presto ke no se mas en ke diya, en ke maz estamos !!! Un fenomeno de la vejes !...