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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.
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

The events of 1968 therefore came as a shock to me. [ . . . ] One could of course continue to claim that it was not the people but only those horrible communists, those monstrous rulers, who with…

“Prélude,” Abishag

For my daughter Nedjéand for her husband Armand Bengui.Where word and spirit make feeling divineI see creation and I see poetry . . .But I know I risk the sin of heresyIf I say the words and spirit…

Studies in Prejudice

At this moment in world history anti-Semitism is not manifesting itself with the full and violent destructiveness of which we know it to be capable. Even a social disease has its periods of quiescence…

Reflections on Little Rock

Finally, I should like to remind the reader that I am writing as an outsider. I have never lived in the South and have even avoided occasional trips to Southern states because they…

Jewish Women Call for Change

The Jewish tradition regarding women, once far ahead of other cultures, has now fallen disgracefully behind in failing to come to terms with developments of the past century. Accepting the age-old…

Sunday Shtetl

Rabbi Levi Yitskhok’s drayman—the one who wore tales and tfiln as he smeared the wheels of his wagon with tar— turns up in the shape of a bunch of Jews hanging around their houses, washing the car (w…
Forged iron installation of glyphs resting on squat pedestals.
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Commandment II

Commandment II is from a series of forged-iron sculptures Kirili began in the late 1970s. They are among his best-known works and reflect his strong interest in religious concepts and ancient texts…