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.
Days of War and Revolution: Memories of a Way of Life
The distinctly Land of Israel character in the messianic thought of this generation did not limit itself to the influence of the Shabetai ferment…
Portrait of Baruch Spinoza
Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza, one of the world’s foremost philosophers, was born in Amsterdam to parents of Portuguese New Christian origin and educated in the Talmud Torah of the Portuguese Sephardic…
Home of the Brave
T.J.:Why don’t you get the lead out of your can and do something for once?Coney [to Finch]:You finish your map.Finch:It’s finished, Coney.Coney:Well, let T. J. Rockefeller do something besides blowing…
Duette: Mein Liebchen, wir sassen beisammen (Duet: My Sweetheart, We Sat Together)
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel wrote numerous songs, piano compositions, cantatas, and other musical works, which were not published in her lifetime. The illustration on this hand-written manuscript…
A Generation in the Land
Plans for the anthology of fiction and poetry now presented to the Hebrew reader arose in our minds several years ago, but particularly the tenth anniversary of the State of Israel was found to be…
The Rebbe’s Grandson
The terrace of the large coffee house in Berlin was almost empty, save for the occasional occupied table. The season had already turned autumnal. The weather was unpredictable, and the air carried a…
Worker’s Song
Written down while working in the fields, patterned after the Arabic working song and sung to that tune. O I have my life and my labor!Yah ḥai li, li-hah-‘amali!Awaken, my brothers, there’s no time…
Book of Cooking and Home Economics for Jewish Housewives
It is a not a simple cookbook that I am presenting herewith to my sisters in faith, although most room is given to the “kitchen.” This book of Cooking and Home Economics [Koch- und…
The Way to a Man’s Heart ("The Settlement" Cook Book)
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To Build a Fire
Measuring
Scalloped Apples
Coffee
Setting the Table
Washing Dishes