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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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This wonder, this marvel

This wonder, this marvel, which the deceitful fantasy Basilisk or Asp believes it to be, is an error of understanding: Since if one considers it carefully, the Divine Providence is rewarding your…

Peri tsadik (Fruit of the Righteous)

May the bridegroom rejoice and the roses multiply, let sorrows fade away and let the young, old, and simple-minded understand. May the grooms be joyful with strophic poetry (shirot) and songs (renanot…

Bubba Esther, 1888

She was still upset, she wanted to tell me, she kept remembering his terrible hands: how she came, a young girl of seventeen, a freckled fairskinned Jew from Kovno to Hamburg with her uncle and…

Lecture with Celan

How many know the number of creatures is endless? So many know, only a gasp in their questions is possible. All that fullness— of wounds that won’t scar over. pain’s grillework persisting in…
Terra-cotta figurine of horse with ornament on head.
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Horse with Object on Head

Several horse figurines have objects on the forehead, like this one. The object may represent the horse’s forelock or mane, or perhaps a decorative ornament. This terra-cotta figurine from the City of…
Oval seal impression of horse.
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Seal Impression with Prancing Horse

This image, found at En Gedi, depicts a prancing or galloping horse with its head and right foreleg raised. The high level of skill shown in the realistic engraving makes it one of the finest seals…
Photo of a red flat-topped mountain with a field of grass in front of it.
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A Trumpet in the Wadi

This fictional exploration of interethnic relationships is set in 1980s Israel, a time of significant political and social turmoil owing to the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict.

Building Jerusalem

They are all seated in the parlour once again.Alice:Alright, I have another idea. I propose we go around and describe the scene on New Year’s Eve one hundred years ago. What do you…

On Filling Shoes

I had a very unusual fifteenth birthday. During my birthday week, the end of April, I was traveling with 5,000 high school students from around the world, visiting concentration camps in Poland. I…