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.
The Shepherd
There once lived a little shepherd.
One time he fell asleep in the vale.
The shepherd woke: woe to me!
The sheep were not in the vale.
Woe is me,
Woe and oh
Without my sheep
Where should I go.
The Formula of Grief
Vadim Sidur was sometimes called “the Soviet Henry Moore” because of the similarities between his aesthetic and those of the British artist. In Sidur’s native Soviet Union, however, his work was…
Build Up, Build Up the Path
Every single nation, if it wishes to place its foot on the threshold of the family of nations on the earth, must prepare a constitution for itself stating its integrity, and to bring with it the book…
Jacob Frank: The End to the Sabbatean Heresy
Without any intent to praise myself inappropriately, but rather to take note that perseverance and good will helps to achieve results, I want to emphasize that, without causing any…
Speech: On the Organization (National Council of Jewish Women)
Indeed, woman is only just awakened to the realization of her true part and function in the economy of the universe, she has only begun to feel her real power and to exert it for the progress of her…
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…
Mendel the Bibliophile
Back in Vienna again, on my way home from a visit to the outer districts of the city, I was unexpectedly caught in a heavy shower of rain that sent people running from its wet whiplash to take refuge…
Speech on the Hebrew Kindergarten
The “kindergarten” as a corridor to the salon of education, as a foundation for the tower of learning, has received particular attention among all civilized peoples, and all the more so does it…
Tel Aviv
Avigdor walked beyond the city limits of Tel Aviv into the endless stretch of sand. He had never seen such sand. He walked among the sand dunes, as in a forest, seeing nothing except the glaring sands…
The Problems of Jewish Music
June 1, 1918
Jewish music is the face of a frozen sphinx which, after the millennium of its antiquity, is still only on the path to discovering its secret, is only now waking to life…