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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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The Call of the Wandering Jew

Hot lava flows in my veins to-night,    My nerves are jangling mad, The Joy of Life is a tinsel gaud,    The sweetest songs sound sad. I feel the drag of the Wanderlust,    I see the ghosts stream by…

Still Life

Bread and cheese and honey on a simple table. The tea beckons golden In two thin glasses. Green, cool and fresh, The water jug, veiled in dew. On the edge a woman’s handkerchief. Next to it, a…

Letter to Y. H. Brenner

More than once I began writing to you, and each time I took my pen in my hand I felt in my inner heart that in writing I will say nothing—to see you face to face, heart to heart, and to fall on each…

Book of Memoirs

On the third August 1889 I departed from London for South Africa on the steamship Drummond Castle. There were two hundred passengers comprising British, Hollanders, Germans and eleven Jews. We Jews…

The Third Party Convention

The Bund has inscribed on its banner the demand for equal civil rights for the Jews. At the Convention the opinion was expressed that Jewish Social Democracy deals with the needs of the Jewish…

A Reply to Mr. Sholem Aleichem

Precisely in the case of a new and difficult question like “Jewish folk-music,” [ . . . ] it is necessary to establish as much as possible [its] specific, objective characteristics . . . You make fun…