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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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Response to Martin Luther

I would also humbly bring to Your Honours’ attention that the said Dr. Marti[n], not content with what he has already accused us of in the way of great iniquities, has now published another booklet…

Letter to Menaḥem Azariah da Fano

Abraham Menaḥem Kohen Porto to the prince and magnate, chieftain and nobleman, our teacher R. Menaḥem Azariah de Fano—may his Rock and Redeemer preserve him—greetings to his glorious excellency! Beh…

The Wandering Jew

Leuchtentrager sets down his cup. “And there’s no end in sight to the confusion,” he says as though his mind were seriously troubled by this, “they say the Wandering Jew was seen again, not far from…

Zagrowsky Tells

I was standing in the park under that tree. They call it the Hanging Elm. Once upon a time it made a big improvement on all kinds of hooligans. Nowadays if, once in a while…No. So this woman comes up…

The Bride Price

Some time later, two or three months had passed, David sends for me again. Bathsheba is there, her hair beautifully arranged, very pretty and self-confident. Already the mistress of this palace. David…

Nightfather

He never mentions it by name. It might have been Trebibor or Majdawitz, Soblinka or Birkenhausen. He talks about “the camp,” as if there had been just one. “After the war,” he says, “I saw a film…

Here Comes the Messiah!

…They landed in Lod at night, on the eve of the Day of Judgment. After lengthy procedures at the airport (a bureaucrat-girl with the same heavy accent, just as tired and pale, couldn’t understand, for…

The Good Catch

Kohn practiced an important profession, the most important after that of God. He was arranging life. […] […] And from what does this personage, second only to God, live? He is given a part of the…

Vienna

We couldn’t be Jews, my brother finally explained, raising his voice, because our grandmother had not been Jewish, and for Jews only your mother counts. We weren’t even half-Jewish, because our father…

For Richard Turner

You wrote on the back page of my last essay (“Political Education in The Republic”) “Good ideas, but style too literary. Use of images evades the…