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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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An Open Letter

With God’s help, may the Lord order blessing, life, and peace for the leaders and fine men, preeminent individuals, etc., and for their head, the Great Rabbi, etc.Hear, congregation of the Lord and…

A Man and His Parrot

It is barely six in the morning and the stars are still out, but Manuel has to get up. It isn’t a job that wakes him. That obligation used to get him right to his feet, but now? Now just getting…
Page of printed Yiddish text, with one line of Russian text at the bottom of the page.
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Subscription Notice

Subscription for the Year 1903 to the First Daily Zhargon (Yiddish) Newspaper in Russia, Der frayndPublished in Saint Petersburg by Sh. Ginsburg and Sh. Rapaport [S. An-ski]

Literary Science

The purpose of this work is to acquaint the Yiddish reader with the theory, structure, and various forms of belletristic literature in general and Yiddish literature in particular.The need for…

Cohen on the Telephone

I rang up to tell you that I’m your tenant Cohen. I say I’m your tenant, Cohen. I ain’t goin’, I’m stoppin’ here. I’m your tenant Coh—Not lieutenant Cohen. I vant to tell you thet last night the vind…

Letter to Jacob Dinezon

My only, best and devoted friend, as I can express myself, nonpartisan, true friend Yankev Dinezon!I really cherish the letter that I received from you last week. But unfortunately, I am so busy with…
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…

Letters from Westerbork

Finding something to say about Westerbork is also difficult because of its ambiguous character. On the one hand it is a stable community in the making, a forced one to be sure, yet with all the…

Blood

On the nights before Passover, Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur, my mother would send me to the butcher with some birds to be slaughtered according to ritual so the meat would be kosher—that is, clean…

As You Die There in Agony, Brother

As you die there in agony, brother, Don’t be calling your comrades in vain. Let me warm my hands on your body, Make good use of the blood from your veins. Stop crying, stop groaning, don’t be a…