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 Gezer Tablet
His two months, namely, ingathering; his two months, namely, seed (or: sowing); his two months, namely, late sowing; his month, namely, flax-cutting; his month, namely, barley harvest; his month…
Technion Building (Façade)
Alexander Baerwald’s design for the Technion reflects the ambitious goals of its founders to create a world-class institute for science and technological education in the Holy Land. The main building…
Assyrian Soldier Slaying a Captive
Soldier slaying captive, Khorsabad, late eighth century BCE. The captive is probably a Samarian seized during Sargon’s conquest of the city. From a relief in the palace of Sargon at Dur-Sharrukin…
Here Lies an Important Woman
This is one of a series of sketches made by Solomon Yudovin of the striking ornamentation often found on Jewish gravestones in Eastern Europe. He made the drawing in the context of his participation…
First Fruits
Rubin was a member of what is known as the Land of Israel movement, a group of artists who, in the 1920s, broke with the conventions of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. They drew on the ideas…
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Der fraynd (The Friend) was the first Yiddish daily in the Russian Empire. Founded by Shaul Ginsburg in St. Petersburg in 1903, Der fraynd was for several years the only Yiddish daily permitted in the…
Two Jews
Early in his career, Castel often painted pictures of Jews, like these, whose roots were in Arab lands. Many at the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, where he studied, believed that Yemenite Jews…
Civilians (Poster)
This poster was published by the Jewish Welfare Board in the United States just prior to the armistice bringing World War I to a halt. The message was to elicit support from Jewish civilians for the…
The Children of the Ghetto
Not here in our London Ghetto the gates and gaberdines of the olden Ghetto of the Eternal City; yet no lack of signs external by which one may know it, and those who dwell therein. Its narrow…
A Shtetl
On a seasonable Saturday morning, Itchele decided that the time had finally come to get even with the butchers for their bloody triumph before the holiday. He got together a bunch of young toughs and…
Hill of Sand
It was most curious, Hemdat’s having agreed to give Yael Hayyut literature lessons. Yet since it struck him as being but one more insoluble psychological riddle, he took the moralist’s advice and…
Self-Portrait with Jewish Identity Card
Felix Nussbaum painted this self-portrait while he and his wife were in hiding in Brussels, Belgium, about a year before they were arrested and deported to Auschwitz. Every element of the picture…