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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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Page with English title and image of crowd of people emerging from a pot next to the Statue of Liberty.
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The Melting Pot

Vera [Agitated, coming nearer]:  Irony, Mr. Quixano? Please, please, do not imagine there is any irony in my congratulations.David:  The irony is in all the congratulations. How can I endure them when…
Sheet music with transliterated Hebrew lyrics and Hebrew and English text at bottom.
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Palestine Dances!

Against the setting sun, in the fields near a kevutzah in Palestine, a group of young halutzim are dancing. All day long they have worked hard on the land. The morrow brings another day of…
Handwritten letter in English with small stamp at top and signature on bottom.
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Letter to George Washington

Deprived as we heretofore have been of the invaluable rights of free citizens, we now (with a deep sense of gratitude to the Almighty disposer of all events) behold a government erected by the Majesty…
Drawing of men in fetters arranged in a line, some with ropes around their necks, and German text above.
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Halakhic Query to David Oppenheim

The incident was as follows: A woman came before me from a backwater Jewish town weeping bitterly over the sins of her youth, as she had been unfaithful to her first husband before she married her…
Manuscript page with drawing of building complex with inner courtyards.
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Inscription from K’ai-fêng Fu

Concerning the origin of the religion of Israel [Yi-tz’ u-lo-yeh], it has come from a distant past. It began with Adam [A-tan], who was a descendant of P’an-ku in the nineteenth generation, and it was…
Print with decorative border of man in robes wearing hat and holding a book with right hand and Latin heading.
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Oath

I swear by the Eternal God and by His ten most holy commandments, which were given on Mount Sinai through Moses as lawgiver after the people had been freed from their bondage in Egypt, that I have…
Stone tablet with large crack in middle inscribed with Akkadian writing.
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Israel, God’s Servant

But you, Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, Seed of Abraham My friend— You whom I drew from the ends of the earth And called from its far corners, To whom I said: You are My…

Erev

In every village in the region, in every farmhouse you’d meet them, the Boyars. The first Boyar, family legend had it, had settled in the Polesian forests many generations ago. His name had been Ezra…