- Type:
- Book Chapter
- Author:
- Axel Stähler
- Published:
- 2025
Every year on Tisha b'Av, Jews commemorate the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem.In 1847, the German Jewish poet Julius Kossarski, gave voice to the continued emotional potency of the historical occurrence in its religious setting:Today, in augmentation of my grief, I see bearded old men as they pray.Alas, they mark the destruction Of Judah, in a pious circle.That day I hear them all Bewail and lament so loudly, That saw Jerusalem fall, Judah's might reduce to dust. 1 Julius Kossarski, Wallfahrt in Palstina (Berlin: Simion, 1847), p. 181: "Heut, zu meines Gram's Vermehrung, / Seh' ich beten brt'ge Greise./ Ach, sie feiern die Zerstrung / Juda's
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- Every year on Tisha b'Av, Jews commemorate the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem.In 1847, the German Jewish poet Julius Kossarski, gave voice to the continued emotional potency of the historical occurrence in its religious setting:Today, in augmentation of my grief, I see bearded old men as…
- Who wrote "502Chapter V The Destruction of Jerusalem in the German Jewish Literary Imagination"?
- Axel Stähler