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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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Hatikva

In 1947, when Kurt Weill’s orchestral arrangement of Hatikva received its world premiere in New York, it was still—as it had been for decades—the anthem of the modern Zionist movement, expressing the…

The Kultura Work

The perceived role of the national culture in the Zionist Eretz-Israeli context was to shape the new Jewish society created in the land of Israel and to give it overall content. It aimed to shape the…

New Jews, Old Jews

…The rationalist model related to Jewish history and the Diaspora as accidents that could be corrected. It did not devote much thought to the past, but…

How to Save American Jews

Over the past ten years, the American Jewish community has undergone a radical inner shift in mood, from buoyant optimism to deep anxiety about its future. […] The present anxiety can be dated to the…

The Limestone

If it forms the one landscape that we, the inconstant ones,Are constantly homesick for, this is chieflyBecause it dissolves in water.—Auden, “In Praise of Limestone”If beauty and truth were to overlap…
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Outsider

The moment she entered the room, she noticed something suspicious out of the corner of her eye. Dror and Koby stood next to her bed and pretended to tie their shoelaces. She knew…

In the City and in the Forest

1. The Waters of Strife (Meribah)What is it between me and you, O man of God, that you have come to me to remind me of my sin? (1 Kings 17:18)Drops of oil fell into the pitcher of water. A clamor and…