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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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Photograph of several women in dresses and headdresses with rug and cooking implements on the floor.
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Esther Play for Purim

Purim plays (Purim shpiln, in Yiddish), sometimes also called Esther plays, have been known since the fifteenth century in both Ashkenazic and Sephardic communities. These folk plays were performed on…
Drawing of man speaking to another man in robes on a dais, holding a dripping sword, with two men holding impaled human heads behind him.
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Alliance with the Sultan

This satirical political cartoon, printed in Sofia, Bulgaria, in the Ladino socialist periodical El Pueblo (The People), mocks Theodor Herzl’s 1902 visit to Istanbul. The cartoon indicates two…
Photograph of man wearing glasses and suit.
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1920 Diary

Isaac Babel offers a stark and unflinching account of the pogroms, looting, and violence against Jewish communities he witnessed as a war correspondent during the Polish-Soviet War.
Framed piece of paper with three columns of text: single letters in left column, numbers in middle column, and Hebrew text in right column.
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Omer Board

This omer board is used to keep count in the ritual of counting the forty-nine days from the first day on which barley was offered in the Temple in Jerusalem until the day before Shavuot.