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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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My White Snow Princess

Oh white spirit— My princess! The spring rips, Tears at your dress. The air is full of spring’s fame Crowned with florets Carrying its perfume Spring’s fresh scents. Bringing your death, My white…

Yiddish Folk Songs

In this volume I have made a selection of religious and holiday songs. Actually, they constitute a single group, since in reality it is hard to draw a sharp dividing line between the first group and…

Revealment and Concealment

For it is clear that language with all its associations does not introduce us at all into the inner area, the essence of things, but that, on the contrary, language itself stands as a barrier before…

To the Worker Women

Laboring women, suffering women Women who languish in factory and home— Why stand at a distance, why build not our temple Of humanity’s joy, and of freedom sublime? Help us to bear the red banner…

The Mission of Ha-Shiloaḥ

In establishing this monthly periodical today, we believe that we are doing that which the times demand, its absence being felt by many. We are not establishing a study house for sages who will sit…

Ha-Shiloaḥ: Our Goal

[ . . . ] However, the new Ha-Shiloaḥ will also be different from its predecessor in many important respects. Without a doubt, Hebrew literature has evolved and accomplished much over the past fifteen…

Di yugend Editorial Statement

With this number, Di yugend passes into new hands—the hands of its writers. It is no secret that Yiddish writers, especially young Yiddish writers—and most of the contributors to this monthly journal…

Halachah and Aggadah

But must we conclude—as many think—that Halachah and Aggadah are two irreconcilable opposites? Those who so conclude are confusing accident and form with substance; as who should declare the ice and…