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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 Brothers Ashkenazi

The Lodz merchant and community head, Abraham Hersh Ashkenazi, known as Abraham Hersh Danziger for his frequent trips to Danzig, sat over a Tractate Zebahim, brooding and tugging…

A Prayer

I pray Thee O Lord From all my heart, O Lord! I pray to Thee. With fervor and zeal, For the sufferings of the humiliated, For the uncertainty of those who wait; For the non-return of the dead; For…

Jewish Gymnastics Newspaper

A healthy mind lives in a healthy body!This old Latin adage never received proper attention among us Jews, although we do not doubt its truth. Accepted in theory, its thought did not…

Bread

My steps are set down stiffly on tired, empty paths. This morning a little town of Jews called me “Anti-Semite!” All of them in wrinkles and in rags out there pointing at me: “Him! That guy! We…
Page of printed Yiddish text, with alphabet chart on left side.
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A Dictionary of Political Terms

Demagogue:A leader and rabble rouser for the masses, who rouses the simple benighted people, provoking their most base desires, their feelings of jealousy and hate, and has therefore a great sway over…

Hitler’s Haggadah

In haste Quickly came the Americans. This Bread These emaciated faces Of our ancestors in panic From Hitler All who are hungry may they walk and fear All who are in need flee in trembling. This…

Scroll of Agony

The journal is my life, my companion and my confidant. Without it I would be lost. In it I pour out all my heart’s feelings, until I feel somewhat relieved. When I am angry and…

Nuptial Divorce

Orellana:[To Leber, about to dig into a towering salad] Hey there, you with the Jewish joke of a face, spit one out for us. That should perk you up. Nobody can tell Jewish jokes like a Jew. And now…

The Mole

Not in vain did I vow to be faithful, not in vain did I tag at your heels. With the mole I struggled from darkness, stubborn and under a spell. You, grief of the nails on my fingers, you, woe of my…