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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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Tropic Nightmare in Singapore

Seven continents, seven seas, and two and forty years— and torrid equatorial nights filled with nightmare fears. Open eyes, naked heart. And draining blood from me, mosquitoes buzzing, buzzing…

The New World

A new world being made—one hears In childhood that it has begun; Then comes the passage of the years— Is it not yet fully done? The new world being made—always, From childhood on—and on the day The…

Lord I Have Seen Too Much

Lord, I have seen too much for one who sat In quiet at his window’s luminous eye And puzzled over house and street and sky, Safe only in the narrowest habitat; Who studies peace as if the world were…

The Oath

By these eyes that have seen the woe and grief, their outcries heaving to my heart’s embrace, by this compassion which taught me: forgive till the time did come too awful for grace— I have taken this…

Quai Blériot

It all began one wild dawn The barges slid by under torrents of rain The clouds raced past shredded and torn above charcoal-glinting roofs  Two bourgeois dogs passed by with a sideways gait The…

America Is Not Babylonia

But what about the future? Does the American-Jewish community possess those traits and characteristics which, as we know from the experience of a dozen Diaspora communities over two thousand years…

Psalm

Veritas sequitur . . . In the small beauty of the forest The wild deer bedding down— That they are there! Their eyes Effortless, the soft lips Nuzzle and the alien small teeth Tear at the grass T…

Emet ve-emunah (Truth and Faith)

There is a certain Ḥayah [angelic being] in the firmament, who bears the sign of truth upon its forehead during the daytime, whereby the angels know that it is day, and in the evening, it bears the…

Open Rebuke

How, I ask you, could we have continued to be a nation until the present, and how could we have been able to walk such a great distance along the path of history without losing our unity or having our…