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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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Spanish Translation of the Bible

In his De officiis, most discreet reader, Tullius Cicero writes that nothing can move us so powerfully as to see some form or kind of benefit, which must be esteemed all the more, the less it is of an…

Amude shesh (Marble Pillars)

And with this ethical teaching I saw fit to seal up the pillar of Torah, which in our generation is very much weakened, and on the verge of the abyss, as all its methods of study are corrupt from the…

Letter to Mordechai Margoliot

To the great master, the stronghold and tower, his name is increasingly great, he is my beloved master, the juice of my pomegranate (Song of Songs 8:2), my olive brimming with oil, Josheb-basshebeth a…

A lovely fawn inspiring awe and love

A lovely fawn inspiring awe and love,    Her eyes shoot darts that penetrate men’s      hearts. Her lips are like a scarlet thread, a rose    Dotted with dabs of myrrh. Her face is      bright as…

Lament on the Fire of Salonika

And yet she was the jewel of perfection to all far and near Who had not seen such splendor, all who came from north and south From all lands and gathered there, the distinguished Who were drawn to…

The Loser

Grandfather scurries from cupboard to cupboard in his black coat; he looks in every corner, checking for bread crumbs in my treasure drawer, under my crystals and shells. He rummages through…

Leaving Brooklyn

The summer I was fifteen years old—just before my senior year in high school, for I had skipped grades—a new thing under the sun appeared in Brooklyn. Contact lenses. My parents made inquiries…