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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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Sculpture of a figure in robe and hat, carrying a book.
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Jewish Scholar

Katherine M. Cohen created a number of sculptures that explored Jewish themes, including Jewish Scholar. She also sculpted, on commission, portrait busts of prominent Philadelphia Jews, such as Judge…
Bronze sculpture of seated figure with beard and Star of David etched onto its side.
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The Sleeping Messiah

Glicenstein depicted the Jewish Messiah as a semi-nude figure in the classical style, with bowed head and tethered to his seat. It received early recognition, admired by Rodin and praised in the…
Photograph of five young boys standing and sitting in various poses on crumbling foundation of a wall with swastika drawn on it. One boy points a flat wooden stick at another boy, who is giving a metal object to a seated boy.
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Yorkville Swastika

The Photo League was notable for the large number of women who participated in it; about one-third of its members were women. Vivian Cherry’s work was influential in shaping the style and iconography…

The Ages of Man

Let but the son of earth           Remember from his birth   That in the end   He shall return:   As at his birth he was,   So shall he be.“Arise and prosper,” say ye unto himOf five years, whose…

In the Port

You strangers with the broad, thick-veined hands, Crooked legs and faces hard as leather, Smelling of sea and tar And of the rust of thick anchor chains; Oh, you, strangers to all nations and tongues…
Wooden monument of vertical rectangles and circles.
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Homage to the Six Million

Few works by Louise Nevelson allude to Jewish themes. Homage to the Six Million is one of the exceptions. She said of her sculpture that she hoped it would create “a living presence of a people who…
Engraved half-length portrait of woman facing left.
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Portrait of Emma Lazarus

The socially conscious writer Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) grew up in an established Sephardic family in New York. Lazarus’s eloquent essays, emotive poetry, and insightful translations—particularly of…

Tikvatenu (Our Hope)

At the request of a well-known patriot Our hope is not yet lost That hope of ages To return to the land of our fathers To the city where David dwelt As long as hope remains in our hearts The…

A Women’s Gathering

The cloak makers have hit upon an outstanding plan. Everybody knows that the greatest enemies of strikes are often the wives of the strikers themselves. That which the bosses cannot achieve with money…