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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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Yiddish Literature and Its Writers

It has been a long time since things have been this lively in the little Yiddish literary world of Russia. Our young writers have crowned the current period in Jewish life with the name “Cultural…

Meeting Minutes on the Brenner Affair

Meeting of the Committee comprising: Chairman—Mr. M. Ussishkin; Committee Member—Mr. Ḥ. Ettinger. Candidates—Messrs. Ravnitzki and Raymist; Members of the Audit Committee—Mr. Bialik, Dr. Klausner, Mr…

One Literature in Two Languages

Some impassioned readers among us will not admit that our one and only literature has a double language. After the Czernowitz conference, one of our Hebrew writers (now living in America) swore…

Responsum: On Uniting European Jewry

Now, the editor [of the Maḥzike hadas journal] suggested that we keep away from the people of this generation, that is, separate from one another entirely, just as Abraham separated from Lot [see…

Sleep, Sleep, Sleep

Shlof, shlof, shlof, Der tateh vet kumen in dorf, Vet er brengn an epeleh, Vet zayn gezunt dos kepele. Sleep, sleep, sleep, Daddy is traveling to the village, He will bring back a little apple, So…
Painting of wide-eyed man walking through dead bodies and crucifixes.
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The Wandering Jew

In The Wandering Jew, a man driven mad with horror runs through an apocalyptic landscape full of crucifixes and strewn with corpses. A protest against the long history of Christian persecution of Jews…
Sketch of man gazing down at a woman on the ground amid ruins of a building.
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Under Her Father's Eyes

In 1903, the paintings of Abel Pann had helped draw attention and international outrage to the Kishinev pogrom. Pann again used his art to document the devastation of Jewish communities in Eastern…
Page of Yiddish text with illustration of stylized bust of figure wearing necklace and crown next to a bird.
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Temerl

Cover image and page 4 of Moyshe Broderzon’s Temerl, illustrated by Joseph Chaikov. 
Page with printed Yiddish text and small photograph of woman in center.
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Benefit Lunch with Bertha Kalich

This full-page advertisement for a benefit lunch, to be held that day, December 14, 1898, at the Thalia Theater in New York City, with the famed Yiddish actress Bertha Kalich (ca. 1872–1939), includes…

Behind the Fence

One Sabbath eve, as darkness fell, Noah lay hidden among the thorns and thistles growing under the fences outside the quarter and waited. He knew that Marinka would be returning this way from her…