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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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Of Change and Adaptation in Judaism

Midrash [ . . . ] is not mere reference to the past: it is the enlistment of the past in the service of the present. Even more specifically, it is a reinsertion into the present of the original divine…

A Child of the Century

The Readers Digest Magazine broke the American silence attending the massacre of the Jews in February, 1943. It printed my article called “Remember Us,” based on Dr. [Hayim] Greenberg’s data. Reading…

A Memorial Synagogue

The Painter had a different personality. A tiny Polish Jew, he was famous as a creator of wonderful whimsical animals. He said: “For my part I wanted to use stained glass. But the architect says we…

Eli, the Fanatic

Inside the house they took their seats. Though it was lighter than a few evenings before, a bulb or two would have helped. Eli had to hold his briefcase towards the window for the last gleamings. He…

The Education of the Heart

Warrenton, North Carolina U.S. of America August 7th, 1815 A young American lady who has long felt towards Miss Edgeworth those sentiments of respect and admiration which superior talents exerted in…

Letters and Diary

The negro movement is still a most vexatious and mischievous one, and its effects are painfully felt in every Southern household. This morning Cy came to high words with George and…

The Three Brothers

“Back at home, I pulled myself together and reflected on what had happened. Given how the people had behaved when they heard the wrongheaded and hateful rabbi’s curse of excommunication, I realized…

Emek refa’im (Valley of Giants)

When I was still young, nineteen years of age, it entered my mind to fool the world (as was the practice of the “holy ones” in those days), and this was the scheme I adopted: I used to travel on…
Handwritten letter in English with small stamp at top and signature on bottom.
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Letter to George Washington

Deprived as we heretofore have been of the invaluable rights of free citizens, we now (with a deep sense of gratitude to the Almighty disposer of all events) behold a government erected by the Majesty…