Jewish Anti-Israel Leftists Should Remember the Night of the Murdered Poets
“It seemed to me that I could smell the fumes and the fire."
By Daniel Greenfield —— Bio and Archives--July 22, 2026
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“There is a day that falls in August when the Temple of Solomon was burned,” David Bergelson told a Soviet tribunal. “On this day all Jews fast for twenty-four hours, even the children. They go to the cemetery for an entire day and pray there ‘together with the dead.’ I was so immersed in that atmosphere of that temple being burned—people talked about it a great deal in the community—that when I was six or seven years old it seemed to me that I could smell the fumes and the fire.”
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