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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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Sculpture in the shape of Hebrew letters, with a circular base with English and Hebrew words, set against a leafy backdrop.
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Lo Tishkach (Thou Shalt Not Forget)

Berman’s best-known work is her Holocaust memorial for the Stroum Jewish Community Center on Mercer Island in Washington State. The twelve-foot-high bronze sculpture consists of stylized Hebrew…
Oil on wood showing English text over four human faces.
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I Hate the Name Kenneth

Abraham from Odessa changed his name. He had to if he wanted to get ahead at Ford where he got a job painting stripes on Model Ts. Fifty years later Albert retired, a vice-president in the tractor…
Abstract watercolor painting made of ovals.
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Pond (55)

In 2000, Cohen Levy had an exhibition, at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, of a series of paintings of ponds. Each of the paintings has a pattern: a single image, such as leaves, eyes, or fish, which is…

Account of a Vision

Listen carefully to my words. When I was in the land of Safed, one night, when the sun had set, I was tired and weary, lying on my bed. I was asleep, but my heart was awake; my beloved was knocking…

Last Will and Testament

In the year fifteen hundred and forty-nine, the seventh indiction, the first day of the month of February, during the time of the pontificate of the Holy Father in Christ Our Lord, Lord Paul III, pope…

Sefer ha-zikhronot (Record Book)

These are the things that have no set limit [m. Peah 1:1] for the benefactors of the nation, friends and nobles, young and old, and righteous women, who have come together in the gemilut ḥasadim…