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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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Psalm

I am not lyric any more I will not play the harp for your pleasure I will not make a joyful noise to you, neither will I lament for I know you drink lamentation, too, like wine so I dully…
Terra-cotta figurine of horse.
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Horse Figurine

Numerous figurines of horses, sometimes including a rider, have been found. Most have traces of paint; it is likely that they were all originally painted. The paint sometimes depicts the horse’s…

Berlin, Jerusalem and the Moon

Edie:You got it. I can’t be a woman and I can’t be a Jew. And I can’t be either, because I can’t be both. So, you know what I’m gonna be? I am gonna be nothing.Else:Oh, I see, you call all of that…

Herod

Miriam, Aristobolus and Dina. Miriam:Mother! Enter Alexandra, Miriam’s mother. Alex:Your shouting will wake the dead. A little refinement, Miriam, you’re no longer a little girl. Miriam:It…

Split at the Root

In a long poem written in 1960, when I was thirty-one years old, I described myself as “Split at the root, neither Gentile nor Jew, / Yankee nor Rebel.” I was still trying to have it both ways: to be…
Drawing of helmeted figures carrying statues.
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God Speaks to Cyrus

Thus said the Lord to Cyrus, His anointed one— Whose right hand He has grasped, Treading down nations before him, [ . . . ]. I am the Lord and there is none else;Beside Me, there is no god.I engird…
Photograph of many people sitting around a set table and looking at the camera.
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The Birthday Party

It was taken on Saturday, March 20, 1937, in the town of Swienciany, which lies on the Polish border with Lithuania approximately 50 miles northeast of Vilna. Nine girls and two boys, together with…