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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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Revolutionary Chapters

The war went on and would not be stopped. On the contrary. It proved futile to hold it to any schedule or limit. At no prearranged time would the land be quiet, not at harvest time, not near winter…

A Shklov Moon on Arbat Street

The other day I met a Jew from Shklov on Arbat Street, directly opposite the entrance to the Vakhtangov Theater, and he told me about the moon he knew in Shklov, which urged him to Moscow. The Jew was…

Scorched Earth

. . . An empty street. An unfamiliar shack. A tightly shut gate. And hanging over the gate, over the dead street, over us all—a Cossack cap with a raspberry-colored band. A trail of smoke from an…

God’s Trial

When the forest-writer Avraham-Yisroel moved from the woods into the city, he had his own wife, three daughters, and two sons. He also had…

Quite a Bank

There’s a stale, sour stench: a miscellany of heaped-up vegetables and fruits, cheese, fried fish, sweaty bodies, thighs, urine, and belching drunks. The smell sneaks harsh but titillating into the…

Song of My Indifference

For some the now is good enough—and that is fine for them!But what shall I dowhen I alwayssee before mephosphorescent questions flashing:Where?Where to?I am ready tiredof hovering,of flickering,of…

The Two Voyages of Gulliver

To the Lilliputians and to the Giants Translated and adapted from Jonathan Swift by Alexandre Benghiat. The prince of that place, who saw and liked me, bought me from my master, and I was taken to…

My Palms Are Raised toward You

My palms are raised toward you, To the little light Which I still have in your eyes, And you—sharpen your teeth For the softness of my yellow flesh; And were this flesh to be thrown upon the field An…