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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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Printed page with Hebrew text and decorated Hebrew word in top register.
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Bomberg Babylonian Talmud

Printing, which Jews adopted immediately after its invention, helped to unify far-flung communities. Where previously Jewish learning had been transmitted through the individual copying of manuscripts…
Illustration of a sphere circled by rings at various angles, including illustrations of zodiac symbols.
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Illustration of an Armillary Sphere

This illustration of an armillary sphere is from a treatise on astronomy, Sefer mareh ha-ofanim (The Appearance of the Heavenly Beings), by Solomon ben Abraham Avigdor. The treatise was mostly a…
Photograph of sculpture in an atrium depicting man in labor camp with arm raised holding a flag.
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Remembrance

Remembrance was commissioned by Congregation Agudas Achim in Bexley, Ohio. The nine-foot-tall bronze sculpture depicts smoke rising from a crematorium, intertwined with the arm of a survivor…
Painting of stacked stones forming a Star of David with cracks and metal, with a number 6 above the star on one of the rocks and quotation marks on another set of rocks.
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Memorial

Memorial, like many of Bak’s paintings, evokes the ruins incurred by the Holocaust, in this case symbolized by the shards of shattered Jewish tombstones, possibly hinting at the two tablets of law. A…
Four canvases of varying sizes with a razor on canvas on top left, English text and shadowy object on right, red fabric on middle left, and photograph of a seated woman on bottom left.
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Razor

Weinfeld, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, produced artworks addressing the question of who she would have been if she had herself been a prisoner in a concentration camp? Would she have been…