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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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Witches’ Sabbath

Thus there began to form, or to show itself within me that heart so proud and yet so tender, that effeminate and yet indomitable character which, constantly vacillating between weakness and courage,…

The Mission of Ha-Mitspeh

There is a need for a special Hebrew newspaper written for Galicia and the rest of the Central European countries—it seems to us that there is no need to emphasize this point. The two Hebrew-language…

Adoon’s Jealousy

His strong, coal-black hands crumpling and twisting his faded old hat, the thirty-year-old Adoons said in a quiet but firm voice to his employer, Mr. Waldman, the produce dealer, “Baas, I’m finishing…

The Negation of the Diaspora

“A negative attitude toward the diaspora” is an expression frequently heard in discussions between the Zionists, who look beyond the diaspora for a solution to our national problem, and the…

Man Overboard

[ . . . ] And the Lieutenant-Captain was seriously tired of other people’s passports, of never-ending family names, from Ivanov to Chavchavadze, and of registration. The barrister has been…

A Discussion about Religious Questions

So, Mr. Blum? So, Mr. Blau? What’s with you, Mr. Blum? What should be with me, Mr. Blau? How should I know what’s with you, Mr. Blum? I’m asking you. May I not ask? Why are you staring so? I’m staring…

Shayke

Once this was the heart of Warsaw—this labyrinth of sad narrow streets between tall tenement houses. Now this is a remote place, an ancient tumor on the body of the modern city, where its blood flows…

De Vriendt Goes Home

De Vriendt shut the door, but stayed with his forehead pressed against it; the strength had gone out of him. This Englishman knew. He knew the nature of his relation to…