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.
Meetings and Partings, Friends and Strangers
I came to say good-bye. I was going away to the University of Missouri. My grandfather turned from the window at which he sat, looking across the lots at the parkway. To eyes used to…
Jew Boy
Olive liked her new job very much. She had never before tasted such rich, well-cooked food in her life. She put on weight. She was contented.
There wasn’t too much work; just cleaning the…
Julie and the Miracle
People like to get something for their money, doing business is entertainment as well, and indeed there would be precious little fun to be got out of life in Polana if it were not so. It is equally…
The Mound
After you, the killed of the Ukraine;After you, butcheredIn a mound in Gorodishche,The Dnieper town . . .KaddishNo! Heavenly tallow, don’t lick my gummy beards.Out of my mouth’s brown streams of…
Unsatiated Passions
Unsatiated passions want to be satiated,
Arms wish to be tired,
Lips look for merging,
Fingers long for cracking,
Green fires in the eyes are greening greener,
Like eyes of wolves in frozen fields,
G…
Condemnation of Women Singing in Cafés on the Sabbath
Along the quay, near the White Tower, there is a café where two young Jewish girls from Salonica sing every day, including Shabbat. In truth we do not find their behavior as low as that of other young…
Russian Jews Tricked into Slavery in America
As the Territorial Organization Information Bureau in Warsaw, 10 Marianka Street, writes in the newspapers that those wanting to go to America should go to their colonies in the state of Texas, as…
Instructional Book for Small Producers: How to Make Chocolate, Coffee, and Condensed American Milk for Travelers and Home Use
To make chocolate, coffee, and milk you will need the following utensils:
A pan, galvanized on the inside, or a saucepan made of coarse tinned zinc with two iron…
Judeo-Arabic Proverbs from Fez
1. “If a pale woman desires you, do not desire her! Do not waste on her the legacy from your father and your grandfather! She is like a white spot that, settling in the eye, blinds it.”
This…
In Defense of the Natural Response
When macabre reality gnaws at a person’s soul, it is hard to devote oneself to psychological investigation, even of very pressing subjects. The event also seemed cut off from life, entirely academic…
Last Will and Testament
My beloved son and daughter!
I am writing these lines, my dear children, in the vale of tears of…
Consider Iwo Jima
This is perhaps the grimmest, and surely the holiest task we have faced since D-Day. Here before us lie the bodies of…