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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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Exterior photograph of street with several buildings on left and one on right.
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Great Synagogue (Lutsk, Ukraine)

The Great Synagogue of Lutsk (Łuck) in Ukraine was built in 1626. Renaissance in style, the synagogue is an example of a fortress synagogue, built not only as a house of worship but also with the…
Facing-page manuscript with illustration of fish and spiral design with Hebrew list below on right side, and illustrations of ram's head and bull's head with Hebrew lists below on left page.
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Sefer goralot

These illustrated pages are from a manuscript copy of Sefer goralot (Book of Lots), a treatise on geomancy, which was a method of divination popular in the medieval world. The text was attributed…
Tombstone with Hebrew text.
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Tombstone from Cochin, India

Tombstone of a son of Ephraim Cohen, who was buried in a Jewish cemetery in Cochin, India. The first Jewish communities in Cochin were established as early as 1000 CE, and legends claim that Jews were…
Exterior photograph of intersecting walls of stone buildings with tile roofs.
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Paradesi Synagogue (Cochin, India)

Built in 1568, the Paradesi Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in India, as well as in the entire British Commonwealth. The land on which it was built was a gift from the Rajah of Cochin, Paraja, so…
Stylized portrait painting of man and woman sitting at a table facing forward cluttered with objects, fruits, animals, and papers, the woman resting her head on the man's shoulder as he holds a handful of papers, amid buildings in background.
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Portrait of My Parents

Iofin’s portrait of his parents, painted before his emigration from the Soviet Union, was a sly protest against Socialist Realism. He painted in the style but parodied it by overloading his picture…

Yesh noḥalin (Some Inherit)

Look from the top of Amana (Song of Songs 4:8) and [see the type of] negotiation carried out faithfully [emunah]: 1. Be diligent in your transactions, to ensure that they are…

Testament (New York)

In the name of God Amen I Rachel Luis being sick of body but of sound mind and Memory Do make this my last will and Testamit in manner and form following that is to say I wish and order that after my…