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Here you’ll find texts and images spanning more than 3,000 years of Jewish history and culture. Our free site aims to ensure that thought leaders and scholars of Jewish history can represent Jewish life holistically and with a multiplicity of voices.
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Engage with the gendered dimensions of Jewish life and discover lost voices of Jewish women.
Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in June of 2022, abortion’s political, religious, and social impact has been at the forefront of political debate in the United States.
Text and image sources now available on the site cover all published volumes—includingthe biblical (through 332 BCE) and early modern to contemporary periods (1500–2005).
An abecedary is a list of the letters of the alphabet, written in order, for instruction or practice in writing, and perhaps also for other purposes. Four abecedaries were written on this large…
This diploma of Doctor of Medicine was awarded to Jacob Mahler by the University of Padua, Italy. Mahler, born in Bingen-on-Rhine, Germany, studied medicine and philosophy, and in 1695 was awarded a…
Jonas saw that he was successful in the study of these sciences and that he had mastered the Latin tongue; in addition, his younger brother, who would be taking over his role in the family had grown…
At the present moment there are from New York City and suburbs two women students at Cornell, four at Bryn Mawr, thirteen at Smith, seventeen at Vassar (besides fifteen in preparation for it) and…
Volume 7: National Renaissance and International Horizons, 1880–1918, ed. Israel Bartal and Kenneth B. Moss, offers over 1,000 texts and images from Arabic to Yiddish, from mystical visions to revolutionary poetry—an essential starting point for understanding the Jewish 20th century
Detail from "Ḥuppah," unknown artist, 1748. Courtesy of the Picture Collection, the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
Jewish Museum in Prague.
Photo: Larissa Puro. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. https://commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Women%27s_March_Los_Angeles_-_January_2017.jpg
Detail from Arthur Szyk, "The Four Sons." From The Haggadah (London: Beaconsfield Press, 1940). Reproduced with the cooperation of The Arthur Szyk Society, www.szyk.org.
Detail of Women’s Auxiliary Air Force Recruitment Poster, 1938–1948. Dobkin Family Collection of Feminism.