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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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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…

The Valley of Demons

Those matters discussed in an earlier issue dedicated to the practice of indolka inspired the distinguished writer to write this fine article. Everything that I am relating here is neither eloquent…

The Haunted Tailor

He burst into laughter that immediately frightened him. Just then he passed the “Cold Synagogue”—a synagogue in which, it was said, the dead came to say their prayers on Saturday nights, wearing white…

The Cross

We were too late. The pogrom erupted that very night, suddenly, like an exploding mine, and in my own neighborhood. The first screams came to me confused, in a hazy dream. Then it dawned on me what…

The Cares of a Family Man

Some say the word Odradek is of Slavonic origin, and try to account for it on that basis. Others again believe it to be of German origin, only influenced by Slavonic. The uncertainty of both…