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.
A Cross and a Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile
Bread
Very early in the morning we went to pick up fresh bread at Doña Blanquita’s. However, before arriving at her house that resembled the generosity of her hands and clay ovens, we had to cross a…
A Diary of the Nazi Ghetto in Vilna
This morning I was in the children’s nursery. Women who work leave their children from 7 to 6. There are 150 children between the ages of three months and two years, [one…
Building the Tabernacle
When Moses had ascended the mountain, the cloud covered the mountain. The Presence of the Lord abode on Mount Sinai, and the cloud hid it for six days. On the seventh day He called to…
Satan in Goray
It was Rabbi Benish’s practice to say his afternoon and evening prayers by himself in his study. When the news reached his ears he hurried to the prayer house. But it…
Sefer luḥot edut (Tablets of Testimony)
For it is not against me that these men have sinned, for what am I and what is my life? My days have passed like a transient shadow, and fly away as does a dream—like a dream upon…
Response to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship. We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting. The old Inquisition had its rack and…
Practice Safe Politics
This postcard was part of a campaign by Jewish Women Watching criticizing the close relationship between Jewish community leaders and conservative evangelical Christians who were against abortion.
Non omnis moriar
“Even if you kill us, we will leave traces,” insists the poet. Poems such as this one affirm the power of humanity even in the midst of atrocities committed by neighbors.
Untitled (your body is a battleground)
Barbara Kruger produced Untitled (Your body is a battleground), her most famous work, in support of reproductive freedom at the time of the 1989 Women’s March on Washington, DC.
The Jewish Gauchos
This collection of short vignettes about life in the Jewish agricultural colonies was published for Argentina’s independence centennial. It presents their experience as redemptive.
The Crisis of Jewish Colonization in Argentina
Published after his visit to the Jewish Colonization Association colonies in Argentina in 1908, Chasanowitch’s report is a scathing critique of the administration’s treatment of farmers.