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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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Where Is My Light?

Where is my light? My light is in me. Where is my hope? My hope is in me. Where is my strength? My strength is in me, And in you.
Page with diagonal and horizontal Yiddish and German text.
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Cover of Albatros, No. 3

Albatros, a journal of literature and graphic art, debuted in Warsaw in 1922 and published its final two issues in Berlin. The journal was edited by the Hebrew-Yiddish poet Uri Zvi Greenberg and…
Portrait painting of a bald man, whose face looks gaunt and injured, looking at the viewer.
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Portrait of Yitzhak Katzenelson

Yitzhak Katzenelson (1885–1944) was a Hebrew and Yiddish poet from Łódź who was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he was extraordinarily prolific as a poet, playwright, translator and public…
Photograph of five young boys standing and sitting in various poses on crumbling foundation of a wall with swastika drawn on it. One boy points a flat wooden stick at another boy, who is giving a metal object to a seated boy.
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Untitled (Group of Boys and Swastika)

The Photo League was notable for the large number of women who participated in it; about one-third of its members were women. Vivian Cherry’s work was influential in shaping the style and iconography…
Abstract painting featuring simple circles, half-circles, squares, and triangles.
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Rythme Coloré

Rythme coloré (Colored Rhythm) embodies the concept of Simultanisme, a style developed by Sonia Delaunay and her husband Robert Delaunay in the 1910s. Simultanisme (also known as Orphism) was based on…
Wooden monument of vertical rectangles and circles.
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Homage to the Six Million

Few works by Louise Nevelson allude to Jewish themes. Homage to the Six Million is one of the exceptions. She said of her sculpture that she hoped it would create “a living presence of a people who…