Season 3, Episode 8 In the City of Slaughter

By Hayyim Nahman Bialik

Written in the wake of the Kishinev pogrom, this challenging poem vents Bialik’s frustration at the victims the Jews have allowed themselves to become, and seeks to change the direction of the Jewish people’s national fate by pushing them to reclaim their former courage and nerve.

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