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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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Exit from Home

A little while later, the women retired to the back room and Samuel and Ethel were the only ones still up. Ethel continued to sew silently, scarcely raising her head when the others left. Samuel…

Eddy King

[Enter the actor playing Mario Farucci]Actor:Later. The cellar. After the funeral service for Paolo Farucci. After Don Leonardo has suddenly been taken to hospital. Night. [Exit][Dim light on…
A circular metal disc with small handle.
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Bronze Mirror

This mirror was found in the Moringa burial cave at En Gedi; its tang would have been fitted into a handle, now missing, made of metal, ivory, or bone (see Ivory and Bone Carvings and Engraved…
Relief of boat with several men in profile with spears inside, surrounded by water, fish, and octopuses.
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Jonah

The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: Go at once to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim judgment upon it; for their wickedness has come before Me. Jonah, however, started…

Sexual Morality

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: I the Lord am your God. You shall not copy the practices of the land of Egypt where you dwelt, or of the land of…
Aerial photograph of stone city ruins.
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Civil and Domestic Life

A woman must not put on man’s apparel, nor shall a man wear woman’s clothing; for whoever does these things is abhorrent to the Lord your God. If, along the road, you chance upon a bird…
Tablet with inscribed Hebrew writing and several cracks, and small disconnected fragment.
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A Legal Complaint

May my lord, the governor/commander, listen to the word of his servant! As for your servant, your servant was harvesting in Hatsar-asam. And your servant harvested and finished/measured and stored it…

The Vision of the Dry Bones

The hand of the Lord came upon me. He took me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the valley. It was full of bones. He led me all around them; there were very many of them spread over…

Ruling on the Kosher Lamp

I was asked by a resident in London concerning a portable electric lamp called “Kosher Lamp” which has a separate upper part which is made to direct the light or to cover it up altogether by twisting…
Painting of young woman standing next to three men seated at a table with open books.
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The Difficult Question

Early in his career, Jacob Meyer de Haan (also known as Isaac Meyer de Haan) was known for his Jewish genre paintings. In this one, painted in 1880 while de Haan still resided in the Netherlands, a…