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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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Yitskhok Leybush Peretz

And you’re dead. And you’ve not yet been covered by the ground; Far through a thousand streets like horses galloping round, Young and old newsboys spread, rushing about their business, Hawking papers…

Three Poems

This is November Season of mills. Wind of the black early morning services. Cemetery And thousandnightliness Of the childish little candles, And their fear. Trudging now Through the…

Jacob’s Ladder

One Who Is Rebellious:To obey commandments of which merely the ear is aware,Yet remain deaf to urges that shake the whole being;To regard as good the former,Which reveal the soul so as to abandon it…

Statistical Report of One Shtetl

Statisticians customarily provide detailed counts for a typical small town, from which deductions can be made regarding other small towns of the same type. Thus the statistics of a small town acquire…

Protest against Zionism

We recently received from Vienna the new newspaper of the “Zionists,” Die Welt. It appeared on the eve of the holiday of the Feast of Weeks, which reminds us more than any other holiday that it was…

American Jewish Committee

What I am trying to accomplish is to get order out of chaos, and to unite all elements that might possibly seek to father a national movement with the result that union instead of discord would be the…