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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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Children of Poland

In the city of Warsaw such a long time ago Two hundred children stand lined row on row With their freshly washed faces and freshly washed clothes The children of Poland who never grow old In the…

Jerusalem, the Adulterous Wife

The word of the Lord came to me: O mortal, proclaim Jerusalem’s abominations to her, and say: Thus said the Lord God to Jerusalem: By origin and birth you are from the land of the Canaanites—your…
Painting of wide-eyed man walking through dead bodies and crucifixes.
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The Wandering Jew

In The Wandering Jew, a man driven mad with horror runs through an apocalyptic landscape full of crucifixes and strewn with corpses. A protest against the long history of Christian persecution of Jews…

Conclusion (to Ecclesiastes)

How sweet is the light, what a delight for the eyes to behold the sun! Even if a man lives many years, let him enjoy himself in all of them, remembering how many the days of darkness are…

Jezebel’s Letter about Naboth

So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and the nobles who lived in the same town with Naboth. In the letters she wrote as follows:…
Illustration of long building façade.
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Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium

Joseph Barsky’s design for the Herzliya Gymnasium, established in 1905 as the first Hebrew high school in Palestine, was adapted from Charles Chipiez’s and Georges Perrot’s understanding of…
Painting in three horizontal panels, featuring a king on throne, a queen, several figures on horseback, and a hanging of a man on the bottom right.
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Purim Story Painting

The Book of Esther recounts the story of the rescue of the Jews of Persia from the machinations of the evil vizier Haman, who sought to annihilate them. Thanks to the bravery and cleverness of the…
Painting of standing nude woman with long veil.
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Jewish Bride

Weissberg was a member of the School of Paris (École de Paris), a group of young artists, many of them Jews from Central and Eastern Europe who had settled in Paris. Weissberg was a well-liked habitué…
Photograph of building entrance with rose-shaped window and Hebrew inscription seen from above.
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Synagogue, Pitt Street

The Photo League, a socially conscious photographers’ collective that Walter Rosenblum joined in 1937, favored documenting everyday life over newsworthy events. The Lower East Side, with its crowded…

A Slice of Bread

He then returned to his city, filled with bitterness, humiliated, oppressed, and weak. He found his wife Ḥaya—who had been a picture of robust health and womanly valor when he had set out on his…