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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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A Seder Night

A medieval rabbi barely escapes from a blood libel accusation at his own Seder table in this prescient nineteenth-century story by the famous German Romantic poet Heinrich Heine.

The Penal Recruit

“One morning—it was the fourth day of Hanukkah (the holiday of the Maccabees), when we were readying ourselves to celebrate the victory of our heroic ancestors, which was the capture of Antioch—the…

The March 17th Decree

Laws are always tainted by the passions and the prejudices of the legislator. —Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws In 1807, Mordecai Blum, his wife Rebecca, and his son David were living in a…