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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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Five Mournful Years for Jewry

Five years have passed since that mournful 5th of March, which witnessed the so-called election of Hitler as Chancellor of the German Reich. It might long have been foreseen and perhaps even averted…

The Platform of Hashomer

The Goal: To develop in our land a cadre of Jewish guards fit for this task. The Means: 1. To organize the operating guards in the colonies. 2. To become acquainted with and to prepare in the colonies…

Address to the Jury

Gentlemen of the jury, we have been in public life for twenty-seven years. We have been hauled into court, in and out of season—we have never denied our position. Even the police know that Emma…

Why Do the Heathen Rage?

The latest attempt to salvage poor shipwrecked Judaism in America is on. The Menorah Journal summoned the doughtiest intellectuals to this heroic task. These came highly equipped with trenchant pen…

German Jewish Parnassus

One hundred and odd years ago, the walls that imprisoned us Jews in a mental ghetto fell, torn down by Christian advocates of human rights who are assured of our eternal gratitude. After having been…

The Advocate

In his book Ha-metsaref [The Purifier], vol. II §182, Rabbi Moses Kunitz wrote: The term am ha-arets [lit., “People of the Land,” often meaning boors] was applied to people of various dispositions…

My Restlessness Is of a Wolf

My restlessness is of a wolf, and of a bear my rest, Riot shouts in me, and boredom listens. I am not what I want, I am not what I think, I am the magician and I’m the magic-trick. I am an ancient…

Abischag

King David was old, advanced in years. Though covered in bedclothes, he could not get warm. They searched the land of Israel for a beautiful young woman and found Abischag the Shunammite, who was…