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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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Scroll manuscript page with Hebrew text in four columns, with illustrations on top of figures seated talking to each other, working by a tree, and walking; the middle sections feature ladders and people working on trees; the bottom features elephants and rhinoceroses.
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Scroll of the Book of Esther

This scroll of Esther from Germany, created for use on the holiday of Purim, is extensively decorated, with illustrations of biblical scenes from the Esther story, as well as various flora and fauna…
Screenprint and acrylic on canvas featuring three identical full length portraits of a figure in hat and suit.
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Triple Silver Yentl (My Elvis)

Triple Silver Yentl (My Elvis) is part of what is known as Kass’s Jewish Warhol series, a feminist comment on Andy Warhol’s famous screen prints of celebrities. Kass used the same mass-production…

Messiah

Son of fruitful Joseph, precious Ephraim, child of joy, lush grove of magnificence, you will exult and rejoice—for, with a vengeance, the Just will arise over the House of the Barren when the time…

Spanish Translation of the Bible

In his De officiis, most discreet reader, Tullius Cicero writes that nothing can move us so powerfully as to see some form or kind of benefit, which must be esteemed all the more, the less it is of an…

A lovely fawn inspiring awe and love

A lovely fawn inspiring awe and love,    Her eyes shoot darts that penetrate men’s      hearts. Her lips are like a scarlet thread, a rose    Dotted with dabs of myrrh. Her face is      bright as…

The Dilemma

When I see Hannah in full light, when I remember Naomi, perfect in splendour—my soul is aflame for Hannah, my spirit is kindled for Naomi.Here I am, sitting on the fence: Hannah, as of today, is my…

Moving Lights

At the close of Independence Day 1972 a biplane plane rose in the Tel-Aviv sky at dusk and on its belly moving lights flashed:    For health and pleasure eat plenty of poultry    Eat as you should…

Hasidic Motifs

A moon full of shimmering honey, Exuding joy. What bird beats in my heart? Fly away—away, but not alone. What am I shy? What? Thick empyrean wine. I’ll take a wicker bottle, To the cemetery alone…