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.
Utter Chaos
These last words—spoken in all seriousness—completely confused Heinz. He thought he hadn’t heard right.
“Sorry—What do you have?”
“Patrol duty—Jacob can take care of the money now; you’ve seen that…
Yitskhok Leybush Peretz
And you’re dead. And you’ve not yet been covered by the ground;
Far through a thousand streets like horses galloping round,
Young and old newsboys spread, rushing about their business,
Hawking papers…
Three Poems
This is November
Season of mills.
Wind of the black early morning services.
Cemetery
And thousandnightliness
Of the childish little candles,
And their fear.
Trudging now
Through the…
Tomb of an Israeli Soldier I
Tomb of an Israeli Soldier I was one of a series of works painted by Michail Grobman at a time when any sympathetic gesture toward Israel was, for Soviet Jews, an act of defiance. Grobman’s very style…
Lunch at Ratner’s
In the 1960s, Howard Kanovitz began using photographs to develop his own distinct style of photorealism. He made drawings of the figures in photographs and abstracted them into fields of color…
Jacob’s Ladder
One Who Is Rebellious:To obey commandments of which merely the ear is aware,Yet remain deaf to urges that shake the whole being;To regard as good the former,Which reveal the soul so as to abandon it…
Statistical Report of One Shtetl
Statisticians customarily provide detailed counts for a typical small town, from which deductions can be made regarding other small towns of the same type. Thus the statistics of a small town acquire…
Advertisement for Shtilim, a Hebrew Children’s Journal
We have come together these days, during the awakening of our Hebrew literary sphere, to establish a special newspaper for Jewish youngsters and children.Do we really need to talk at length about how…
Medal of Appreciation
In 1860, the Austrian Jewish community commissioned a medal of appreciation for Franz Joseph to commemorate the emperor’s granting to Jews the right to own property within the Austrian Empire. On the…
Religion
Religion is one of many paintings with Christian themes by Philipp Veit, whose mother wanted him to become a priest. He first painted it as a fresco for the north wing of the Vatican and then created…
Letter from Crémieux Agricultural Colony to Peretz Smolenskin
23 Tevet 5643, to the Publisher [Peretz Smolenskin]!The trials and tribulations that afflicted us in the land of our…