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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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The Face of East European Jewry

Is this the Jew of the East? Is he an old man, who, almost entirely removed from the present day and certainly removed from the future, lives a life that is limited to the most oppressed and narrowest…

Palestine and World Jewry

This will be the first of my addresses before the Zionist Congresses to deal not with the various questions involved in the upbuilding of Palestine but with the significance of…

Prepared

A searing poetic response to a 1916 survey, by Martha Gruening, a tireless advocate for women’s rights and African American rights.

The Mind of the Orient

All philosophy—understood in the widest sense as awe before and research into the inexplicable secrets and the inner coherence of the world—is meaningful not for the sake of knowledge but as a form of…

Ghetto Twilight

An infinite weariness comes into the faces of the old tenements, As they stand massed together on the block, Tall and thoughtful silent, In the enveloping twilight. Pensively, They eye each other…

Day and Night

Day and night— Shivering, we wait in bitter day For moonlit night, For the caressing moon. Quivering, we wait in angry night— For the sunlit day, For the warming sun. Day and night— We must loom…

Transformation

Year after year, that cruel monster in the heart growing, sense of guardedness expanding. Year after year—generations’ blessing gouged like a needle into the body. I have wrenched it with irons…

Friends of My Age!

Friends of my age, My happy generation, We strode, pained-pleased, Through the wreckage of whole worlds. Before the living and the dead fell on our portion Inherited old skins of ourselves—and…