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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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La vocación de Abraham

Terah’s wife is pregnant  day after day she turned pale, she already knew what she had  but she did not reveal it to her husband. One day she went out to fields and vineyards,  she found a cavern and…
Drawing of men in fetters arranged in a line, some with ropes around their necks, and German text above.
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Jewish Robbers

This engraving depicting “Jewish robbers” is from the book Des bekannten Diebes, Mörders und Räubers Lips Tullians, und seiner Complicen Leben und Ubelthaten (The Known Thief, Murderer, and Robber…
Printed page with Hebrew text in circular frame and images of four figures around central text: a man with turban, frond, and censer on left, a man with staff and tablets on right, a king on bottom left, and a man playing harp on bottom right, and animal next to pitcher on top of page.
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Talmud

The twelve-volume “Bermann Talmud'' was financed by the Court Jew Behrend Lehmann (Issachar Bermann Segal), printed in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany, by Michael Gottschalk, and published by John…
Facing-page print with left-hand page of Hebrew text with decorative border and woodcut illustration on bottom of man riding ox next to brick building and man playing horn, and right-hand page with Hebrew text surrounded by decorative border including cherubs playing instruments.
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Haggadah (Mantua)

This Haggadah from Mantua, published by the Christian printer Giacomo Rufinelli under the supervision of Isaac ben Solomon Bassan, relies heavily on the Prague Haggadah of 1526, with the addition of…

The Rabbi in the Attic

[…] What rabbi would come to this impoverished nowhere for the pishochs we offered, especially if he had to rent his own lodgings—the congregation had no money for an apartment when a perfectly good…