Sample Sources
The sources below are those contained in our three curated collections—covering themes of Passover, Gender Roles, and Holocaust Resistance. They represent a fraction of the thousands of sources that will be available when the full site launches in 2024.
Building Jerusalem
They are all seated in the parlour once again.Alice:Alright, I have another idea. I propose we go around and describe the scene on New Year’s Eve one hundred years ago. What do you…
On Filling Shoes
I had a very unusual fifteenth birthday. During my birthday week, the end of April, I was traveling with 5,000 high school students from around the world, visiting concentration camps in Poland. I…
In Praise of Normality
The attempt I have made to realign these concepts does not, of course, do away with the conflicts, tensions, cultural struggles, and constant inputs and reequilibrations of problems of identity. All…
The Right Question Is Theological
The situation of the Jewish woman might well be compared to the situation of the Jew in non-Jewish culture. The Gentile projection of the Jew as Other—the stranger, the demon, the human not-quite…
Address at Pope John Paul II’s Historic Visit, Synagogue of Rome, April 13, 1986
Your Holiness,
As the Chief Rabbi of this community, whose history goes back thousands of years, I wish to express to you my intense satisfaction at the gesture you have wished to carry out today…
In No Uncertain Terms: A South African Memoir
During my first few years as the lone Prog M. P., I found myself confronted by a series of vicious laws designed to undermine civil rights and to intensify discrimination…
Jerusalem will Regain Its Glory and Its People
Awake, awake, O Zion!
Clothe yourself in splendor;
Put on your robes of majesty,
Jerusalem, holy city!
For the uncircumcised and the unclean
Shall never enter you again.
Arise, shake…
Poland and the Jews: Inescapable Issues
I prefer to speak of Poland and the Jews rather than Poles and Jews, the latter threatening to limit my freedom of movement within the present subject-matter. Poland and the Jews leaves ample room for…
Desecration of the Sabbath Leads to Destruction
Thus said the Lord to me: Go and stand in the People’s Gate, by which the kings of Judah enter and by which they go forth, and in all the gates of Jerusalem, and say to them: Hear the word of the…
Babylon Will Be Destroyed
Polish the arrows,
Fill the quivers!
The Lord has roused the spirit of the kings of Media,
For His plan against Babylon is to destroy her.
This is the vengeance of the Lord,
Vengeance for His…
Hosea’s Wife and Family as Symbols
The word of the Lord that came to Hosea son of Beeri, in the reigns of Kings Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah of Judah, and in the reign of King Jeroboam son of Joash of Israel.
When…