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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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Redemption of an Israelite

Instead of their seals, they placed their fingernails. Fingernail of Zakuri, fingernail of Dukur-ili, owners of the man being sold. Mannu-ki-Arba’il, son of Ahiyau—Bahianu contracted from Zakuri and…
Portrait painting of bearded man in hat and glasses, and cityscape visible through window behind him.
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Self-Portrait

This is Camille Pissarro’s last self-portrait, painted in his Paris apartment. The artist has seated himself in front of a window, perhaps reflecting the fact that many of his paintings of Paris…

Jacob’s Testament to His Sons

And Jacob called his sons and said, “Come together that I may tell you what is to befall you in days to come. Assemble and hearken, O sons of Jacob; Hearken to Israel your father: Reuben, you…

An Order Concerning a Jar of Oil

(Obverse) To Nahum, [and] now: go to the house of Elyashib son of Ishiyahu and you shall take from there 1 jar of oil and send to Ziph quickly, and seal it with your seal. (Reverse) On the 24th of the…
Façade of building with arched entryways and columns with ornate capitals.
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The Forward Building

Founded in 1897 in New York City, the democratic socialist Yiddish daily Forverts quickly became the most popular Jewish newspaper in the United States (and the most widely circulated non-English…
Stone tablet in two fragments inscribed with Hebrew writing.
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Tel Dan Inscription

[ . . . . . . . . ] and cut (a treaty) [ [ . . . e]l my father went up [against him when] he was fighting in Abe[l?] And my father lay down, he went to his [ancestors (or: eternal place)]. And the…
Painting of man in hat with stern expression on a busy city street next to a collage of newspapers.
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Strange Worlds

In this painting, the elderly proprietor selling newspapers in several languages under the elevated train in Chicago faces away from the hustle and bustle of the street. He and the newspapers are…
Page with Portuguese titles and text and small portrait photographs throughout.
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Kreuzer Sonata Advertisement

A Portuguese-language advertisement for February 5–6, 1915, performances in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, of the Grande Companhia Israelita’s adaptation of Tolstoy’s novella The Kreuzer Sonata.