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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 97

The Lord is king! Let the earth exult, the many islands rejoice! Dense clouds are around Him, righteousness and justice are the base of His throne. Fire is His vanguard, burning His foes on every…
Bronze sculpture of angular shapes resembling a torso.
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Torso in Metal from "The Rock Drill"

The first version of The Rock Drill, exhibited in 1915, was a white plaster figure sitting astride a real drill, an amalgam of man and machine. The sculptor, Jacob Epstein, originally intended it as a…
Photograph of woman wearing white head scarf holding a bouquet and gazing downward in a field.
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Bezalel Student as Ruth the Moabite

Ben-Dov was the founder of the photography department in the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. This photograph of an art student posing as the biblical Ruth is faithful to the Bezalel mission to…
Photograph of two figures looking at each other, one crouched on a stool and the other standing.
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The Double Accountant

Siegfried Berisch (1877–1933) and Josefina Kleine (b. late nineteenth century) are pictured here performing the burlesque Der doppelte Buchhalter (The Double Accountant) at Berlin’s Gebruder Herrnfeld…
Sculpture depicting angel and man, both upright, with arms around each other.
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Jacob and the Angel

Jacob Epstein’s primitive style was not to everyone’s liking, especially when it came to his sculptures with biblical and religious themes. The overt sexuality of some of his sculptures also aroused…

Take Me in under Your Wing

Take me in under your wing and be unto me mother and sister and let your breast be my head’s rest, home of my lonely prayers. At the hour of mercy, at sunset, list and I’ll reveal my sorrow’s root…

In Winter Evenings

From the top of a spire’s tower A ringing’s heard—once. Again. In the chasms of night and land of snow A little village sunken low. Overnight, human isles of rest Warmed by the straw. Close with…