Social Commentaries
The Jew
From Poems (1922)
Social CommentariesReligion
Moses, from whose loins I sprung,
Lit by a lamp in his blood
Ten immutable rules, a moon
For mutable lampless men.
The blonde, the bronze, the ruddy,
With the same heaving blood,
Keep tide to the moon of Moses.
Then why do they sneer at me?
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Codex Note
Nine lines in which a Jewish speaker claims descent from Moses and asks why, when the laws he gave keep tide to the moon of Moses, he is sneered at.
Cite this poem
MLA
Rosenberg, Isaac. “The Jew.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rosenberg/15/.
Chicago
Rosenberg, Isaac. “The Jew.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rosenberg/15/.
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