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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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Ecology

Through narrative, poetry, law, and prayer, the Bible conditions its readers to feel reverence for nature, enjoins restraint in the exploitation of natural resources for human needs, elicits awe in…

Psalm 72

Of Solomon. O God, endow the king with Your judgments, the king’s son with Your righteousness; that he may judge Your people rightly, Your lowly ones, justly. Let the mountains produce well-being…
Photograph of woman in boa sitting on chair and looking to the side.
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Alla Nazimova as Hedda Gabler

Napoleon Sarony took this photograph of Alla Nazimova in the English-language performance of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. Alla Nazimova (1879–1945) was born Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon in Yalta, Crimea, to…
Sculpture of bearded man wearing shawl, with mouth open and hands clasped.
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Moses’ Death

Mendes da Costa was best known for the reliefs he sculpted for buildings in Amsterdam (many of which were figures of animals) in the style of the Niewe Kunst, the Dutch variant of Art Nouveau. But he…

The Street Drummer

Joyous, free, the bird will sing, Trembles on his throne the king, Trembling is not good for me— Like a bird I sing so free, As winds prance, In a trance, Wild and blind, I roam and dance, One street…

Legend

On the shores of the Sea of Galilee Lies a palace of great majesty. There God’s garden is planted, But not a single tree sways. Silence; no wave is heard, Above, every flying bird Is still and…

Mirele Efros

Sheyndele:Mother-in-law . . . I want you to know what all of us in this household really feel. You’re getting old. It’s time for you to take a rest. And besides, frankly, you hold the entire estate in…

Within the Walls

Scene: The living room of the Herming family house. The walls of the home contain valuable paintings by many of the greatest nineteenth-century Danish national romantic painters.State…