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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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A Ruling about Blasphemy and Talion

There came out among the Israelites one whose mother was Israelite and whose father was Egyptian. And a fight broke out in the camp between that half-Israelite and a certain Israelite. The son of…

Bequest of a House to a Daughter

On the 21st of Kislev, that is day 21 of Mesore, year 6 of Artaxerxes the king, Mahseiah son of Jedaniah, a Jew, hereditary-property-holder in Elephantine the fortress of the detachment of Haumadata…

Children of Poland

In the city of Warsaw such a long time ago Two hundred children stand lined row on row With their freshly washed faces and freshly washed clothes The children of Poland who never grow old In the…
Painting of wide-eyed man walking through dead bodies and crucifixes.
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The Wandering Jew

In The Wandering Jew, a man driven mad with horror runs through an apocalyptic landscape full of crucifixes and strewn with corpses. A protest against the long history of Christian persecution of Jews…

Passover Letter

To my brothers Jedaniah and his colleagues the Jewish Troop, your brother Hananiah.May the gods seek the welfare of my brothers at all times.And now, this year, year 5 of Darius the king, word has…
Photograph of building façade with significant decorative trim on window frames and beams.
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Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue

Kneseth Eliyahoo was endowed in honor of Baghdad-born Eliyahoo (Elias) David Sassoon (1820–1880), son of textile magnate David Sassoon (1792–1864), by Elias’s sons. The synagogue was constructed in…

Jehoiachin in Exile

½ (panu) to Jehoiachin, king of Ju[dah] 2 ½ qu to the five sons of the king of Judah 4 qu to 8 Judeans, ½ [qu each] 1 ½ qu to three carpenters from Arvad, ½ qu each ½ panu 1 ½ qu to eight carpenters…
Portrait painting of a man dressed in a collared shirt looking to his right.
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Self-Portrait

Lubin was a member of what is known as the Land of Israel movement, a group of artists who, in the 1920s, drew on the ideas and practices of post-impressionism to create a new modern art of Jewish…
Painting of man sitting sideways in chair facing viewer with hands interlocked.
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Portrait of Mikhoels

Solomon Mikhoels (1890–1948), a Yiddish actor, director of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater (GOSET), and later chair of the Soviet Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, was an iconic figure of Soviet Jewish…