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Subject: RUSSIA - POGROMS
Matches Found: 6

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BABII YAR, by YEVGENY ALEXANDROVICH YEVTUSHENKO    Poem 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


ELDER-BLOSSOM, by JOHANNES BOBROWSKI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here comes %babel, isaak
Last Line: Might die %of your forgetfulness
Subject(s): Babel, Isaac (1894-1941); Babel, Tower Of; Russia - Pogroms; Writing And Writers


ON THE PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS IN RUSSIA, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What murmurs are these that so wofully rise
Last Line: Who rules -- heaven help them! Those realms of the czar!
Subject(s): Jews - Persecution; Russia - Pogroms


RUSSIAN EMIGRE, by DIANE S. MEHTA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The diction of pogroms is the bitter root
Last Line: Ensembles, determined to be contemporary
Subject(s): Russia - Pogroms


STALIN'S LIBRARY CARD: 5. RITUAL MURDER AMONG THE JEWS, by DAVID WOJAHN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not wait until we force you: we will have the final say
Last Line: The verdict is final, the case is closed
Subject(s): Books; Jews; Russia - Pogroms; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)