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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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Moving Lights

At the close of Independence Day 1972 a biplane plane rose in the Tel-Aviv sky at dusk and on its belly moving lights flashed:    For health and pleasure eat plenty of poultry    Eat as you should…

Hasidic Motifs

A moon full of shimmering honey, Exuding joy. What bird beats in my heart? Fly away—away, but not alone. What am I shy? What? Thick empyrean wine. I’ll take a wicker bottle, To the cemetery alone…

Remembered and Forgotten

He turned walking on water into a kind of art. Rarely getting himself wet. He left the ancient harbor at different hours of the day. At times before sunrise. Sometimes he’d return minutes later…

Hualing’s Garden in Iowa

Wind bells over the river with an Indian name: transplanted homelessness disguised as a transplanted home. The garden jingles. Odorous sandalwood censers, kimonos and saris flashing well among the…

An Affirmation

I am not I when called to account— plaster over, dumbly benched the corrosive ardency of blinkered identification. To affirm nothing, a veil of asymptotic bent, prattling over- tunes in the striated…
Terra-cotta figurine of horse and rider.
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Horse and Rider Figurine

This terra-cotta figurine from Lachish is very schematic, and the rider’s legs are not shown. The rider cannot represent an average person because people—even kings—more often rode on donkeys and…

Driving Miss Daisy

Daisy:Honestly, Boolie. Are you trying to irritate me in the middle of an ice storm?She hangs up the phone. Light out on her. Boolie stands a moment in wonder. Light out on him. In the dark we hear…

Exile at Home

Grandpa:And here my grandson gets married! I’m so happy for you! cheers! Le-chayim! I’m sure the bride is beautiful…but the most important thing is she should be a good wife, obedient, who loves…

Anti-Semitism in France, 1978-1992

When Vichy agreed to collaborate with the Germans, their decision to do so shocked many Jews living in France, particularly those who had recently arrived. Despite the Dreyfus Affair at the turn of…