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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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At the Road

The whole day In the roads’ realm The whole day Facing only wind Just a narrow ditch between road and shoulder Just young lids between sun and eye What in the world Can be more beautiful? Translated…

Aesthetic Culture

The world is full of armies. But that is not what will kill us. Béla Balázs If there is culture today, it can only be an aesthetic culture. If one wants to raise seriously the question whether there…

Nationalism and Jewish Emancipation

Those who are engrossed by the Jewish problem and strive to resolve it approach it from the most various points of view, save that which alone would be logical—I mean the Jewish point of view. Indeed…

On Women’s Voting

. . . We believe that our outlook on social life in general is more refined and purer than that of contemporary civilized nations. Our family is sacred to us in a manner more profound than [is the…

Speech: On Jews and Nationalism

Are we always and in all circumstances united with our surroundings, so that only the synagogue, rather than society, attests to separation? Do not believe that in such unity and cooperation I mean…