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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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Page with English title and photograph of woman in dress, next to drawings of three baby-like figures, one in dress, one in suit, and one with beard and hat.
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At the Yiddish Wedding Jubilee

Sheet music for “At the Yiddish Wedding Jubilee,” a song popularized by Sophie Tucker (ca. 1884–1966). Born Sophia Kalish in Tulchyn (today in Ukraine), Sophie Tucker immigrated to the United States…

Victims

Abraham Chajkes was famous throughout the town, nay, even throughout the entire district, as a decent, “solid,” wealthy merchant. [ . . . ] He gave his growing children the best education according to…

Moshkele the Pig

After Moshkele found his way to the Goyim’s Street, he began to be a regular and made the acquaintance of the shkotsim [“goyish” boys]. At first they mocked the little Yid who had wandered…

Sister

As a symbol of the past—all sadness and humility—my mother’s face swims up and rises before my eyes. Her eyes two black abysses, anguish peering from them; her lips moist and rosy, a smile always…

Confession

“Meanwhile months and years disappeared. At twenty-eight I was still without a husband, still an eligible virgin . . . It was spring—free, warm. My heart ached so, I thought I’d go crazy . . . the…

Utter Chaos

These last words—spoken in all seriousness—completely confused Heinz. He thought he hadn’t heard right. “Sorry—What do you have?” “Patrol duty—Jacob can take care of the money now; you’ve seen that…

Yitskhok Leybush Peretz

And you’re dead. And you’ve not yet been covered by the ground; Far through a thousand streets like horses galloping round, Young and old newsboys spread, rushing about their business, Hawking papers…

Three Poems

This is November Season of mills. Wind of the black early morning services. Cemetery And thousandnightliness Of the childish little candles, And their fear. Trudging now Through the…
Painting featuring a large menorah towering over a tomb in front of hills, with crescent and full moon in the sky.
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Tomb of an Israeli Soldier I

Tomb of an Israeli Soldier I was one of a series of works painted by Michail Grobman at a time when any sympathetic gesture toward Israel was, for Soviet Jews, an act of defiance. Grobman’s very style…
Painting featuring three men in suits sitting at a table in a restaurant eating and gesticulating.
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Lunch at Ratner’s

In the 1960s, Howard Kanovitz began using photographs to develop his own distinct style of photorealism. He made drawings of the figures in photographs and abstracted them into fields of color…