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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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Thoughts on the Third Destruction

I leaf through the commemorative albums of the settlements of Ri’shon Le-tsion, Reḥovot, Petaḥ-Tikvah, and Ḥadera. Among other things I was looking for documentary material on the establishment of the…

The Artist and the Falafel

A mighty gust of a cruel wind slid down from Mount Carmel toward the street. After having flooded its lights, its tumult and the aromas emanating from its restaurants, it continued making its way to…

The Crazy Book

Arab Halva—moist, sticky, fibrous. The taste tears across my lips like a memory. Within me Jaffa stirs, wakens from sleep; eyes and faces of Jaffa. I am there, it is afternoon, a city half-awake…

The Joke

The body of a weary man is primed like an ambulance Adrenaline charges through his hot blood. I will go mad if we don’t end this now. Bizarre how a man so blind with bits of coal Can strike so…

Evening Descends

Again the herd throngs the village gateways and dust rises up from the dirt roads. And farther still a pair of clappers keep pace with the lengthening shadows. Evening descends, evening descends. A…

Jerusalem 1967

This year I traveled a long way to view the silence of my city. A baby calms down when you rock it, a city calms down from the distance. I dwelled in longing. I played the hopscotch of the four…

Exodus

The Exodus was declared fit and ready for the run to Palestine. Ari set the sailing time as the morning after the Chanukah party which the management of the Dome Hotel had arranged on…

Water without Sound

The sea tore a rib from its side and said: Go! Lie down there, be a sign that I am great and mighty. Go be a sign. The canal lies at my window, speechless. What can be sadder than water without…
Printed page with French text in center surrounded by seated figures on pedestals, cherubs, and ribboned decorations.
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La Reine de Chypre

La reine de Chypre (The Queen of Cyprus) is a grand opera in five acts, first performed in Paris in 1841. It is regarded as one of the greatest works of the composer Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie…