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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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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…
Painting featuring a large menorah towering over a tomb in front of hills, with crescent and full moon in the sky.
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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…
Painting featuring three men in suits sitting at a table in a restaurant eating and gesticulating.
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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…
Medal depicting two figures on either side of a set of tablets and small portrait of man in center.
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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…
Painting of seated female figure, peering downward and away from viewer, wearing halo and cape and holding large cross.
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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…