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.
View of a Street in Zikhron Ya‘akov
Zikhron Ya‘akov was first established near the city of Haifa as an agricultural settlement in 1882 by Jewish immigrants from Romania. A year later, it became the beneficiary of philanthropist Baron…
Four Bullas from the City of David
[Belonging to Tobshillem/Tobshalem (?)] son of Zakkur the healer.
Tents of New Immigrants in the Vicinity of Allenby Street, Tel Aviv
The British high commissioner for Palestine, Herbert Samuel, officially designated Tel Aviv a township in 1921. Thanks to former residents of Jaffa and immigrants from Europe (who arrived during what…
White Crucifixion
White Crucifixion was the first of several paintings that Chagall made in which Jesus represented Jewish suffering. His use of Christian imagery was controversial, but he was not the first Jewish…
The Book of Monelle
Monelle grew quiet and looked at me:
I came from the night, she said, and I shall return to the night. For I too am a young prostitute.
And Monelle said again:
I pity you, I pity you, my love.
Even…
Agunot (Chained Women)
It is said: A thread of grace is spun and drawn out of the deeds of Israel, and the Holy One, blessed be He, Himself, in His glory, sits and weaves—strand on strand—a tallit all grace and all mercy…
Rumah
Having risen from behind the Judean hills late at night, the moon illuminated the Yemenite neighborhood and the nearby bushland; it played a magical game there between the trees. It hid behind them…
Magdalen
All things I can endure, save one.
The bare, blank room where is no sun;
The parcelled hours; the pallet hard;
The dreary faces here within;
The outer women’s cold regard;
The Pastor’s iterated “sin”…
Yehiam (Life in a Kibbutz)
Yosef Zaritsky was a founder of the New Horizons art group, which, beginning in 1942, sought to break away from the artistic conventions established by the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. He…
Israel Museum
The Israel Museum complex was designed to harmonize with its surroundings. Its low, flat-roofed buildings with facings of Jerusalem limestone were intended to resemble an Arab village on a hilltop…
The Condition of the Jews of Western Azerbaijan in the Years 1888–1893
Written today, the 13th of the month of Adar 5653 (March 1, 1893), and addressed by us, the poor and downtrodden members of the community of Urumia, may God protect it, with a thousand greetings and…
In Which World?
A choked wail . . . Mama paces around the narrow room as though asking for something, her hands grasping her head and striking her heart, and with sobs caught in her throat, she calls out:“Woe unto me…