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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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My Father’s Leaving

When I came back, he was gone. My mother was in the bathroom crying, my sister in her crib restless but asleep. The sun was shining in the bay window, the grass had just been cut. No one mentioned…

Lithuania

…I remember a woman who sat on the pot where the apples cooked in the cold basement, her face black from smoke. And here, near this brick building with a red tile roof, is one of our family, Mausha V…
Drawing of man playing lute and dancing; clay object with man playing lute and dancing.
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Dancing Musician

On this clay plaque from Dan, from the Late Bronze (Canaanite) period, a man is playing a lute while dancing. The position of the performer’s legs shows that he is doing a lively dance.
Seal with four-winged serpent.
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Seal with Four-winged Uraeus

This seal, found at the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem, shows a uraeus or upright cobra with four wings. Modeled on the black-necked cobra that applies its venom both by biting and spitting, it was…

1948

The living room is deserted, dark and quiet. Knocking is heard. Rina comes out of her room carrying an oil lamp to see where the sounds are coming from. She walks around the living room in a…

Integration and Survival

Jewish identity in the preemancipation period assumed essentially one of two forms—religion or communalism. Each in its own way was a break with tradition. Each was predicated on acceptance of the…