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.
Religious Liberty Monument
Religious Liberty was commissioned by the Jewish fraternal organization B’nai B’rith in honor of the American centennial in 1876. It was Moses Ezekiel’s first major commission. Freedom and…
A Jewish Worker’s May Day Speech
Gentlemen! Although I do not for a minute doubt that the majority of those present here know of the great worldwide workers’ holiday of “May 1st,” I nevertheless do not consider it redundant to remind…
Original Assimilation: An Epilogue to the One Hundredth Anniversary of Rahel Varnhagen’s Death
Today in Germany it seems Jewish assimilation must declare its bankruptcy. The general social antisemitism and its official legitimation affects in the first instance assimilated Jews, who can no…
Speech at the First Zionist Congress
Regarding the first point of the program, I was just given the honorific task to add a few words to its discussion. Although I find it very difficult at present to justify my assessment of this matter…
Call to Sephardim to Immigrate to Mexico
When, in 1492, Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon expelled believers in the unity of God, those very same Catholic rulers simultaneously financed Columbus’s discovery of the New…
Zionism or Socialism?
As Jews we hope: firstly, that Yiddish folk-literature, which the young Jewish generation has created for the Jewish people, will continue to grow, attract more talent, and attain the same level as…
From Lack of Concern and from Lack of Feeling
Well done! Hatsofeh was the first newspaper in Erets Yisrael to react to the indifference of the public in the Yishuv in general and the administration of the Jewish Agency in particular with regard…
Before Your Shining, Full Eyes
Before your shining, full eyes
How good it is to live;
Before their light every limb is taut
Like a eucalyptus after a storm are you:
Tired, strong and still moving in the wind
My head will reach to…
You, My Master
You, my master, my hidden enemy! I see you hidden
In the wind that is around all, in all, everywhere:
In my uneasy sleep, in my dark fear at morning,
In my labors by day, in my bread and my salt.
C…
Sanatorium
Gate, open
doorsill, creep near.
Room, I’m here;
back to the cell.
Fire in my flesh.
snow on my skull.
My shoulder heaves
a sack of grief.
Good-bye. Good-bye.
Hand. Eye.
Burning lip
charred by…
Guidelines for the Study of the Warsaw Ghetto
- WorkersHandicraft and small industry: guilds (tsekhn)Trade and industry under Aryan trusteesFree professions: doctors, lawyers…