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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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The Advantages of Hebrew

 MemorandumTo the Board of the Institute of Technical Sciences in Haifa Dear Sirs,The Supreme Institute of Technical Sciences, which the Board is working to establish, is a joy to all those concerned…

The Kaddish

They buried her into the darkness itself. As Miko was leaving the cemetery an old Jew took him by the hand. The man called out to his wife from the door: “I’ve brought him home . . . I couldn’t…

Sephardi, Not Oriental

I have noticed the change of the word “Oriental” to “Sephardi” in the masthead of the latest issue of the journal [La Amerika], “Organ of the Judeo-Sephardi (and no longer Oriental) Colony of America…

Letter against Zionism

With the Grace of God, Sunday, [the week of parshat] Beshalaḥ 5658 [1898], Sighet To my honorable friend, the famous sage, who is both rooted in the knowledge of [Torah from Mt.] Sinai and who uproots…

Masadah

On an autumn night, on a bed of sorrows, far from home and shattered hearth, My mother died; A last tear froze in her eyes as she gasped a dying blessing To me, her son, setting forth…

Lullaby

Hush little baby. Forty-six years now the night has rocked itself in my empty cradle Now a gray head is rocked to sleep with the same tune: Standing at the cradle’s head No angel with two white wings…

Parting Words

We know that a writer has no power except in the pen. Nevertheless there are times when it behooves us to alter the ordinary manner of expression. There are times when the author, too, must depart…