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wrote that the poem is considered "the most influential" if not "the finest" "Jewish poem written since medieval times."
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wrote that "Bialik's poem caused thousands of Jewish youths to cast off their
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Take a step, and your footstep will sink: you have placed your foot in fluff,
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And their sweet fumes will enter your breast, as though deliberately,
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And their blooms are like fluff, and they smell as though of blood.
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Bit by bit they were amassed through arduous labor—and in a flash,
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Excerpt from the poem "In the City of Slaughter", translated by
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A crowbar has embedded itself deeply, like a crushing crowbar,
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and join the Russian underground to fight Czar and tyranny."
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Into fragments of utensils, into rags, into shreds of books:
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Beckoning you to springtime, and to life, and to health;
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God sent everything at once, everyone feasted together:
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And the dear little sun warms and, teasing your grief,
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To walls and hearths, shattered as though by thunder:
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Dried on tree trunks, rocks, and fences; it is they.
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Splinters of broken glass burn with a diamond fire—
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Hayim Nahman Bialik
Hebrew
Hayim Nahman Bialik
Kishinev pogrom
Max Dimont
pacifism
Steven Zipperstein
Vladimir Jabotinsky
"Dependence days: In the shadow of Kishinev"
Max Dimont
Zipperstein, Steven J.
Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History
ISBN
9781631492709
"Hayim Nahman Bialik—the National Jewish poet who spent his childhood in Zhytomyr"
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Poems about rape

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