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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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My Mother

The cheeks collapsed and the eyes half-shut, My mother listens as her knees sigh: The whole morning under the winter sky She ran about to every market. So let us now at the gate of the wall Sleep…

Deliverance Will Come

Over and above all else we gather here tonight to dedicate ourselves to the loftiest hopes of our country, to renew unshakeable faith in the victory, early or late, of America and all the United…

The Farmer and the Cowman

Carnes:The farmer and the cowman should be friends,Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends.One man likes to push a plough,The other likes to chase a cow,But that’s no reason why they cain’t be…

Sefer hitavkut (Book of Struggle)

You should know and believe me, and understand, that I did not become zealous against the scoffers for my own glory, or for the glory of my father’s house, but that it was zeal for the Almighty that…

Preface to Vindiciae Judaeorum

It is remarkable to observe how prejudice changes its form in every century in order to oppress us and to pose difficulties for our admission to civil society. In former, superstitious times, it was…
Assemblage of feathers, photographs, and figurines of humans and animals in a hat shape.
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Feast in Paradise, No. 2

In the early 1980s, Eshel-Gershuni began making what she called “fetishes” or “impossible jewelry,” transferring her skills as a jewelry-maker to sculpture. She combined expensive materials like gold…