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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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Poster of people in hats and shawls standing outside building in village with sign with the number 4 on it, and Yiddish writing across the top and bottom.
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Yidishe Folkspartei Election Poster

The Folkspartei (Folk Party), which championed the goal of Jewish national autonomy in the diaspora, was founded in Saint Petersburg in 1906 under the leadership of the historian Simon Dubnow and…
Image of four panels with man in each panel: one in moustache and riding outfit; one wearing sidelocks, kippah, and suit; one muscled in boots; and one with short sidelocks, hat, and wide stance, all surrounded by decorated border and labeled in Yiddish.
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The Four Sons

This 1934 illustration of the Passover story of the four sons features a caricature of the “wicked” son dressed as Hitler.
Painting of three figures draped with togas.
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1939

An expression of grief and an elegy to the death and destruction that war brings, this painting dates to the start of World War II, when Feibusch anticipated the coming devastation, drawing on his own…
Photograph of four boys perched on a rock overlooking water and facing away from viewer.
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Great Spruce Head Island

After immigrating to the United States in 1937, Ellen Auerbach continued her work as a children’s photographer. As a guest of the artist Fairfield Porter, she visited Great Spruce Head Island in Maine…
Movie poster featuring image of man and woman cheek-to-cheek, surrounded by English movie title and actors' names.
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Casablanca, Poster for the Film

Bill Gold designed more than one poster for Casablanca, including one featuring Humphrey Bogart wielding a gun. Over his seventy-year career, he designed thousands of movie posters, tailoring the…
Mixed media sculpture featuring six figures in various poses: a male and a female figure reclining on the ground, a woman seated in a chair to the right, a man with a donkey mask standing to the left, Superman standing in center, and a woman standing in the background.
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The Costume Party

In The Costume Party, George Segal switched from making all white sculptures to using colors. The six figures—Anthony and Cleopatra, Superman, Pussy Galore, Catwoman, and Bottom from Shakespeare’s…
Illustration featuring tall stack of chairs made of different collage patterns, including Hebrew letters and faces, and traditional dining room chairs.
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Golem, Teatro La Pergola, Firenze

This set design by Emanuele Luzzatti is for a performance of Golem at the Teatro La Pergola in Florence, Italy. Several operas were based on the famous legend about the clay figure, the Golem, brought…
Painting depicting three women and two men walking toward the ocean, away from the viewer, into bright horizon.
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Red Horizon

Eric Bulatov created many paintings that paired nature scenes with Soviet slogans, suggesting that the control of the Soviet regime was everywhere, in every corner of its citizens’ lives. In Red…