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Subject: ANTI-SEMITISM
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BABII YAR, by YEVGENY ALEXANDROVICH YEVTUSHENKO    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation             Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: No monument stands over babii yar
Alternate Author Name(s): Evtushenko, Evgeni
Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Russia - Pogroms; Shoah; Judaism


BABII YAR, by YEVGENY ALEXANDROVICH YEVTUSHENKO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No monument stands over babii yar
Last Line: I am a true russian!
Alternate Author Name(s): Evtushenko, Evgeni
Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Russia - Pogroms


I'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE, by JULIA STEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've seen swastikas blossom all over
Last Line: Unemployment up, economy depressed %blame the jews
Subject(s): Anti-semitism


IN MEMORIAM: 1933 (7. RUSSIA: ANNO 1905), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A young jew. The weed of their hatred
Subject(s): Jews; Russia; Anti-semitism; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians


INSCRIPTIONS: 1944-1956, SELECTION, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the strong, sweetness;
Subject(s): Jews; Russia; Anti-semitism


JEW, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Babies have no special history
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Anti-semitism


KILLJOY, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When my mother and father
Last Line: Artist / & / killjoy
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Suburbs; Anti-semitism; Family Life; Fathers


LINES TO AN ANTI-SEMITE, by EDWARD SYDNEY TYBEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stand! As god saw thee of old time
Last Line: His dagger in thy side?
Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Jews; Judaism


THE JEW TO THE GENTILE, by SARA MESSING STERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The priest bent angry gaze upon the jew
Last Line: "can bring more souls to god than all man's creed."
Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Christianity; Jews; Religious Discrimination; Judaism; Religious Conflict


THE LAMPS ARE BURNING, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Jews; Religion; Anti-semitism; Judaism; Theology


THE STAMP OF CIVILIZATION, by MAX SIMON NORDAU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Japan hath western culture? So you say. O vain
Last Line: As for japan? Why e'en anti-semitism in her land is quite unknown.
Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Japan; Jews; Japanese; Judaism


TO PERSCEUTED FOREIGNERS, by PENINA MOISE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fly from the soil whose desolating creed
Last Line: Come to the homes and bosoms of the free.
Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Freedom; Immigrants; United States; Liberty; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; America