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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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Zayt gezunt (Farewell)

Farewell, farewell, Tomorrow I depart. I’ve sewn myself a pack And had my hair cut off. I’ve got myself a belt That’s tethered to my chains, Said good-bye to all my neighbors Through the wall that…

On the Roads of Siberia

On the roads of Siberia Someone may still uncover a button, a lace Of my torn shoe, A leather belt, a shard of a clay mug, A page of the holy book. On the rivers of Siberia Someone may still…

God, Man, and Devil

Hershele:For a long time . . . The first evening that you were with us, on Hanuka . . . you said that . . . that Freydenyu . . . my wife’s niece . . . that . . .Mischief:What could I have said about…
Monument depicting curved, stylized figure with head in hands set among flowers in a grassy park with a house in the background.
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The Formula of Grief

Vadim Sidur was sometimes called “the Soviet Henry Moore” because of the similarities between his aesthetic and those of the British artist. In Sidur’s native Soviet Union, however, his work was…

We, Jewish Socialists

As socialists, we strive to overthrow the existing order, which is based on economic and political slavery, and to create on its ruins that collectivized state which alone can guarantee the full and…

The Helsingfors Program

Recognizing that the organization of the Jewish people for the purpose of independent national action constitutes, in accordance with the second clause of the Basel Program, one of the most important…

Zionism Needs a Living Content

In its initial stage, Zionism was conceived by its pioneers as a movement wholly depending on mechanical factors: there is a country which happens to be called Palestine, a country without a people…

Unmasked

I have always had the illusion that my face did not clearly betray the calumny of my Jewish heritage. I have always taken care to conceal carefully the bitter secret that my father was a rabbi and my…

Me‘am Lo‘ez to the Song of Songs

Notice, dear readers, that one of the foundations of Judaism is the belief (אמונה) in השארת הנפש, the abidingness of the soul, which means the immortality of the soul, for a person’s soul does not die…