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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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IFF

Hate Hitler? No, I spared him hardly a thought. But Corporal Irmin, first, and later on The O.C.(Flying), Wing Commander Briggs, And the station C.O. Group Captain Ormery— Now there were men were…

The Vessel

I’m trying to pray; one of the voices of my mind says, “God, please help me do this,” but another voice intervenes: “How conceive God’s interest would be to help you believe?” Is this prayer? Might…

Washing the Streets of Holland

When I was twelve, I read The Diary of Anne Frank. I identified with her having to live stories above a busy street over a business, and having to keep quiet for hours at a time. I’d pad about on…

Roommates: My Grandfather’s Story

Gootie, my grandma, was a short, large-boned woman who made the kitchen her kingdom. She entered the living room only on special occasions—like Monday night to watch “I Love Lucy.” She had to think…

Dave at Night

I went back to my letter. “Every Sunday there’s a chess tournament.” I stopped writing. It was crazy. Mr. Doom was supposed to take care of all of us. Mr. Meltzer was supposed to take care of the…
Jar with one visible handle with painting of five people with raised forearms.
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A Procession

In this detail from a pithos (storage jar) from Kuntillet Ajrud, five people stand with raised forearms (their hands are not depicted). As raised hands usually signify praying, the scene may represent…
Comic separated into 8 panels featuring man on street corner giving lecture about butcher shops and iniquity to passers-by.
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Garnish Greens

Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer was a weekly comic strip that appeared in the Forward and other newspapers beginning in 1988. Ben Katchor also published what he calls “picture stories” in book…

Zionism and Racism

Reproaches, condemnations, indictments by other nations—the plot is clear. It leads to the public humiliation, the forced isolation of a people whose suffering is the oldest in the world. Arrests…