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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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Painting of woman sitting sideways on a chair, with arms draped over the chair back and facing viewer, wearing short-sleeved dress, pearls, sash, and a curly updo.
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First Will

I request my husband to dispose as follows:I would wish to be able to give my family in Berlin the capital of 10,000 gulden held for me by my husband . . . my pearls, as my favorite pieces of jewelery…

The Tithe

[ . . . ] The sofer’s work is poorly compensated. There is an old proverb about how the soferim never grow wealthy in the land of Israel. I don’t know who gave birth to that pearl detached from the…

Fishke the Lame

Fishke started to narrate in his lisping, stammering way. “You seem to know I married the blind orphan girl, and after the wedding we lived well, like a Jewish couple should. I think I kept my part of…

La vocación de Abraham

Terah’s wife is pregnant  day after day she turned pale, she already knew what she had  but she did not reveal it to her husband. One day she went out to fields and vineyards,  she found a cavern and…

Song of the Railway

A whole world of railways appeared in our time They carry their passengers—poor men and rich. Admire the wonder, but bear this in mind: It’s really a parable, meant just for you. It is we who are…