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.
Technion Building (Façade)
Alexander Baerwald’s design for the Technion reflects the ambitious goals of its founders to create a world-class institute for science and technological education in the Holy Land. The main building…
Sennacherib’s Annals: The Campaign against Judah
As for Hezekiah, the Judean, I besieged 46 of his fortified walled cities and surrounding smaller towns, which were without number. Using packed-down ramps and applying battering rams, infantry…
Here Lies an Important Woman
This is one of a series of sketches made by Solomon Yudovin of the striking ornamentation often found on Jewish gravestones in Eastern Europe. He made the drawing in the context of his participation…
Der Shokhet
Der Shokhet (The Ritual Slaughterer) is one of a set of thirty lithographs that Ryback published in 1923 in a book memorializing the Jewish communities destroyed during World War I and in the…
Resting at Noon
Gutman was a member of what is known as the Land of Israel movement, a group of artists who, in the 1920s, broke with the Bezalel School, drawing on the ideas and practices of post-impressionism to…
Advertisement for Vienna Men’s Chorus and Comedy Quartet
This advertisement for a performance at the Villa Colona in Berlin of the Vienna Men’s Chorus and Comedy Quartet, under the direction of Nathan Schwarz, depicts four men in traditional Hasidic costume…
Portrait of Aharon Meskin
This portrait of Aharon Meskin (1898–1974) exemplifies Ben-Zvi’s cubist sculpture. Meskin was a leading actor in the Hebrew-language Habima Theater, who began his association with the troupe while it…
The Golem
Great men were once able to perform great miracles.
When the ghetto of Prague was under attack and marauders wanted to rape the women, roast the children, and murder everyone, when it seemed that all…
Ha-‘akarah (The Barren Wife)
She was fourteen when she married him. She too was ornately dressed that day and sat on Preciado’s right. She too danced with him . . . Was not this her wedding night? —No, it is not!The fierce…
The Story of a Pretend Woman
Ulysses set out with Palamedes and arrived with him at the city of Aulis, on the beach of Boeotia, where the kings and captains, who had already reunited with their ships, received him with a great…
Metamorphosis
As Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin. He lay on his hard, armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little, he could…
Nahalat Binyamin Street, Tel Aviv
Nahalat Binyamin Street was the longest road in the city during Tel Aviv’s earliest years. In the 1920s, it was paved and became Tel Aviv’s main commercial street. Over the next few decades, new…