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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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Isadora Duncan

“Miss Duncan? The dancer? What is that—ballet?” No, it is not ballet. Missing here are the two predominant elements that make up modern ballet: there is neither dance technique nor women wearing…

Ghetto Folklore

The Führer inquires of General Franco, “Comrade, how did you solve the Jewish problem?” Franco answers, “I instituted the yellow badge.” “That’s nothing,” says Hitler. “I imposed tributes…

An Act of Affirmation

It is traditional to begin a new magazine with brave declarations. If we do not, we trust we shall be forgiven. We begin at a moment heavy with a sense of human destiny. Every schoolboy who listens to…

Can Heaven Be Void?

I am in hiding in a loft over a stable, in a village, with good people. The risk of death hovers over me, as it does over all Jews these days, and the slightest lapse of vigilance on my…

The Nazarene

“‘Do you want me to release to you your King of the Jews?’ asked Pilate of the multitude. “‘What is that? What does he say?’ “‘The Procurator asks whom shall he release to you for the festival: Bar…

A Contract

Things were looking pretty bleak, when my wife’s prewar acquaintance brought a ray of hope into our small room. If you too were an artist, you might be able to appreciate how impatiently my wife and I…

Cain and Abel

Dost thou sleep, my brother Abel, That thou art so wonderfully fair? Never have I seen thee As beautiful before. Does the beauty lie in my ax, Or is it, perhaps, in thee? Before the day is done, Spe…

Nights

All those things whose names I hushed in secret, I meet in the night’s abyss. I face the dark. Alert, remembering. Silently, again I’ll let you in—my friends, my beloved dead. And here you are as…