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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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Here Comes the Messiah!

…They landed in Lod at night, on the eve of the Day of Judgment. After lengthy procedures at the airport (a bureaucrat-girl with the same heavy accent, just as tired and pale, couldn’t understand, for…

The Good Catch

Kohn practiced an important profession, the most important after that of God. He was arranging life. […] […] And from what does this personage, second only to God, live? He is given a part of the…

Vienna

We couldn’t be Jews, my brother finally explained, raising his voice, because our grandmother had not been Jewish, and for Jews only your mother counts. We weren’t even half-Jewish, because our father…

For Richard Turner

You wrote on the back page of my last essay (“Political Education in The Republic”) “Good ideas, but style too literary. Use of images evades the…

No Other Place

It is possible, it is very possible, that here it is impossible to live, but here we must remain, here we must die, sleep…there is no other place…—Y. H. Brenner

Roommates: My Grandfather’s Story

Gootie, my grandma, was a short, large-boned woman who made the kitchen her kingdom. She entered the living room only on special occasions—like Monday night to watch “I Love Lucy.” She had to think…

Dave at Night

I went back to my letter. “Every Sunday there’s a chess tournament.” I stopped writing. It was crazy. Mr. Doom was supposed to take care of all of us. Mr. Meltzer was supposed to take care of the…