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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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Your eyebrow, dear, is like a charm

Your eyebrow, dear, is like a charm    that draws to you life’s greatest joys. Rounded like a bow, that brow,    or like a moon in half eclipse. Your eye, beside it, is a pool,    all sparkle, like a…

Three Picture Poems

The turning wheel runs round and round.    It opens and closes the exit of my gate. Noisily it turns for ruin and destruction.    My head is split, my entrails spilled. It chases and it catches…

Stones

Stones are stones. Why did you say stones? Why did you throw stones? Why are you standing here, child? What’s got into you to throw stones at soldiers? Why aren’t you afraid? Why aren’t you worried…

Husbands

They present me with the bill For not having been satisfied, And they always surprise me with the wealth of their lexicon. They ask me for a receipt for my fate, And they make me think, That…
Terra-cotta figurine of woman wearing accessories holding a disk over left breast while right breast is exposed.
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Female Plaque Figurine Holding Disk

There are numerous terra-cotta plaque figurines of females, some naked and others clothed, holding disks, mostly from northern Israel and Transjordan. Many come from border towns and towns whose…
Limestone seal with image of antelope and archer.
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Seal with Archer

This stamp seal depicts an archer shooting at a fleeing quadruped, possibly an antelope. The action is difficult to make out. From the viewer’s perspective the archer is behind the animal while the…

The Normal Heart

Ned’s apartment. It is stark, modern, all black and white. Felix comes walking in from another room with a beer, and Ned follows, carrying one, too.Felix:That’s quite a library in there…

Kabbalah and Criticism

Freud says that primal anxiety was toxic, and that the primal limitation was of inspiration. If the anxiety of influence be imaged as a lack of breathing space, then the voluntary limitation that…