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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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Israeli Blues

“Secular is a terrible word”; “secular is a word I don’t like,” “there is no such thing as a secular Jew”—these clichés are common among absolutely secular intellectuals when they discuss problems of…

May Women Wear Tefillin?

A recent discussion of our question concludes as follows: In conclusion, women are not permitted under any circumstances to wear tefillin. In view of the fact that the Rema, the…
Facing pages with Yiddish text in columns and some French and English text in margins.
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Almanac for the Year 5675

This calendar, Almanac for the Year 5675: Souvenir der Hochschule Bar Iochai und Altenhaus in Miron, was probably a fundraising giveaway for an old-age home and for the high school that Eliezer Ya…
Drawing of one boy waving to another who is rounding the corner toward him.
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Phat’hi’s Treasure

I stood outside the grocery, holding a shopping bag in one hand, and Phat’hi’s strange “letter” in the other. I looked at the drawings of the car, the clock, and the sign over…

Declaration of Yom Kippur War

Citizens of Israel, today, at around 2 p.m., the armies of Egypt and Syria launched an attack against Israel. They carried out a series of attacks from the air, with armor and artillery, in Sinai and…

Taste of Life

Scholars say the cultivated olive originated in Asia Minor and the Mediterranean lands, including the Land of Israel. In the Bible, the olive is first…
Poster of giant apple with worm hovering over two twin skyscrapers and smaller skyscrapers and English text on the left reading, "We Buy and Sell Souls."
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Souls, Inc.

This poster was created for Komar and Melamid’s We Buy and Sell Souls, a conceptual art project the Soviet artists launched soon after their emigration to the United States. They formed a corporation…