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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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What Paths Should Our Movement Take?

The Jewish question may be resolved through a new philosophical synthesis and a true reform of moral and religious life for Jews and Christians alike. Just as we must admit that we need reforms across…

Prophet Marx Speech

Marx was a prophet, no less so than Isaiah, Jeremiah, or Ezekiel. With honest conviction and courage he proclaimed the economic liberation of humanity. He appealed to the workers of the world and…

On Women’s Voting

. . . We believe that our outlook on social life in general is more refined and purer than that of contemporary civilized nations. Our family is sacred to us in a manner more profound than [is the…

Lesser Ury (and Jewish Art)

The strongest testimony to life is productivity, and the most direct form of productivity is art. That is why those of us who announce a life of the Jewish people inquire into the possibility of…

Heine and the Consequences

But Heinrich Heine—even the aesthetes who are rescuing his immortality in an island publishing house (these gloriously impractical minds whose cerebral wrinkles trail away into ornament) have nothing…

The Sanctification of the Name

A passage in chapter 22 of the third Book of Moses was destined to become the starting point for one of the most peculiar religious concepts of the Jewish people. It reads: “Observe my laws and…

Women in the Synagogue

Duality manifests itself in all things, but in nothing is this two-foldness more plainly seen than in woman’s nature. The weaker sex physically, it is the stronger spiritually, it having been said…

Jewboy

He sings in the courtyard, clad in rags A small, poor chap, a crazed Jew. People drive him away, God has muddled his wits Ages and exile have confused his tongue He wails and he dances, weeps and…