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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 Jewish Tailor

A Jewish Tailor is one of Mark Antokolski’s earliest sculptures, created while he was still a student at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. The work appeared in an era of liberalization of tsarist…

To the Worker Women

Laboring women, suffering women Women who languish in factory and home— Why stand at a distance, why build not our temple Of humanity’s joy, and of freedom sublime? Help us to bear the red banner…

On Matters of the Hour

Now I want to talk about the approach to the Arab question. When I was discussing Brit Shalom [Covenant of Peace], I asked: Can there be a common position of Zionists and non-Zionists on this question…

The Mizrachi Manifesto

Pave the way! Pave the way!More than twenty years have passed since the idea that we now call Zionism began to reawaken among the Jews, though its essence and intensity had never ceased among the…

Soviet Russia as I Saw It

[ . . . ] We have heard so much about the achievements of the Evsektsiia [Jewish sections of the Communist Party] in the field of Jewish culture that for this alone many…

To My Soldier Son

My precious heart, my handsome soldier son, I write this letter with my blood to you. Since you’ve had to take the Kaiser’s shilling our world has turned red of a fiery hue. The big decisive battle…

To the Readers (of Yerushalayim)

As I was completing the first volume of this book of ours, I was on my way to Vienna, and the late scholar, Mr. [Peretz] Smolenskin of blessed memory, in his desire to complete the printing, wrote…

The Mission of Ha-Shiloaḥ

In establishing this monthly periodical today, we believe that we are doing that which the times demand, its absence being felt by many. We are not establishing a study house for sages who will sit…