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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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An Open Letter about Literature

To the editorial board of Ha-Nir, greetings.For some time, I have wanted to tell our honorable writers what a simple householder [ba‘al ha-bayit] like me wants from our literature.By using the term si…

Vilna

Vilna, my great matriarch, an established Jewish city, Jerusalem of the Exile, an ancient nation’s consolation in the north! This [poem] is your patched kerchief, like the roof of the old synagogue,…

Buy Cigarettes!

Cigarettes! Cigarettes! My voice rings through the streets With eyes overcast, cloudy— Buy! Buy! Buy! Hunting foxes—Cossacks ride— With horseshoes like scythes— And cut down sounds like sheaves: Buy…

Raḥel

Behold her blood flows in my blood, Behold her voice within me sings— Raḥel the herder of Laban’s sheep, Raḥel—mother’s mother. And so the house is too constricting for me And the city—alien, For…

Self-Portrait

When the cool, colorful, gentile Sundays come, both sit—Valenti, the watchman from my courtyard and his pock-marked, redmouthed, piggish old lady back-to-back on a wooden bench. Both of them gaze…

Russia: Anno 1905

A Young Jew. The weed of their hatred which has grown so tall now turns towards us many heads, many pointed petals and leaves; what did they whisper to each other before the ikons, and smile at over…

The Book of Valor

This book seeks to unfold before the reader the scroll of Jewish valor, in both Israel and the diaspora, from the destruction of the Hebrew state to the harbingers of the renaissance of the…

First Proclamation: 26 May 1941

A fire is now sweeping over the whole Old World, threatening to annihilate, heaven forbid, more than two-thirds of the Jewish people. Nobody can guarantee that the fire, heaven…