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.
Ration List from Arad
Wheat
Uriyahu son of Ragga . . . (ephah measures)
Nehemyahu son of Yehoaz 8
Neriyahu son of Saaryahu 5(?)
Ahikam son of Shemayahu 7
Gaham 5(?)
Yedayahu 5(?)
Gemaryahu 5(?)
[ . . . ]yahu 5(?)
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Tel Aviv Street
In 1906, the Ahuzat Bayit (homestead) society was created in Jaffa by members of the Yishuv (the Jewish community of Palestine) as a planned “Hebrew” community, designed in accordance with the latest…
Front Cover Illustration for Hans Christian Anderson’s Finf arbeslakh (Five peas)
The Russian Revolution initially brought new freedom for Jewish writers and artists. The new regime lifted restrictions on Jewish publishing, sparking a burst of creativity. In 1918, a group of…
Six-Language Dictionary
Title page of the second edition of a six-language (Hebrew-Aramaic, Persian, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Turkish) dictionary published in Jerusalem in 1908.
Esther Play for Purim
Purim plays (Purim shpiln, in Yiddish), sometimes also called Esther plays, have been known since the fifteenth century in both Ashkenazic and Sephardic communities. These folk plays were performed on…
Night of Meron
Gidal began his career as a photographer at a time when the invention of lightweight cameras enabled a more spontaneous type of documentary photography. Photographers could now double as journalists…
Moshkele the Pig
After Moshkele found his way to the Goyim’s Street, he began to be a regular and made the acquaintance of the shkotsim [“goyish” boys]. At first they mocked the little Yid who had wandered…
Land Is Life
Alfons Himmelreich created Land is Life as a cover for the May 1940 issue of the magazine A Land in Construction, a publication of the Jewish National Fund. He accepted the commission as an act of…
Confession
“Meanwhile months and years disappeared. At twenty-eight I was still without a husband, still an eligible virgin . . . It was spring—free, warm. My heart ached so, I thought I’d go crazy . . . the…
Utter Chaos
These last words—spoken in all seriousness—completely confused Heinz. He thought he hadn’t heard right.
“Sorry—What do you have?”
“Patrol duty—Jacob can take care of the money now; you’ve seen that…
Hashomer Hatzair Poster to Honor the 30th Anniversary of the October Revolution
This poster in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of the October revolution of 1917 in Russia calls on all who seek peace, progress, and socialism to support the “first workers’ state,” the Soviet…