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.
Trademark
Bulatov created many paintings that paired nature scenes with Soviet slogans, suggesting the pervasiveness of the Soviet regime, extending to every corner of its citizens’ lives. Here, in Trademark…
Kikar Levana (White Square)
Kikar Levana is an environmental sculpture in Tel Aviv, located on a hill in Edith Wolfson Park. Commissioned to commemorate the builders of the city, its simple geometrical shapes and white concrete…
Green on the Outside, Red on the Inside
Green on the Outside, Red on the Inside was rejected by the Venezuelan government as a contribution to the 1995 Venice Biennale. The installation consisted of a small building, resembling the majority…
Memoir
I record how, in the year 1625, the Grand Duke came to Sienna, and Messer Abraham Pesaro and Messer Buonaventura Gallichi were appointed to collect the levy. From me, they demanded a pair of sheets, a…
Ani ha-mekhuneh (I Am the Man They Call)
I am the man they call, at times, mem-bet-aleph, which are the [Hebrew] initials of Michael ben Abraham. At other times I am called aleph-mem-koph: Abraham Michael Cardozo. I am of the Marranos of…
Testament (Sarajevo)
The deed of will which is thus worded. In the community of Israel we have faithfully declared that we the undersigned are witnesses that it is a true and firm fact that the deceased lady, Sra. Rachel…
Letter from Acre to His Father: First Part
After wishing you good health and well-being and kissing your hand, as is befitting, and also to Madame my mother, blessed among women, amen, and to all the members of the household, may the Rock…
Takkanot Fez (Regulations of Fez): On Moderating Celebrations
When we were gathered together, we the undersigned, to negotiate the repair of fissures in our city, which is the renowned Fez, with the advice and consent of…
Avkat rokhel (Powder of the Merchant)
Hear, ye mountains, the controversy of the Lord, and ye strong foundations of the earth [see Micah 6:2] the lament of my beloved for his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill…
Declarations
Good words of the society of orphan girls of Izmir. In the Name of the Holy One, regulations and new ordinances established for the good governance and with worthy dissemination, with which we must…
Takkanah (Regulation)
In the name of God, in Pisa, the nineteenth of Shevat in the year 5373, February 2, 1613
Whereas the members of the mahamad [board of governors] and those accompanying them, including Ḥakham Azaria…
Letter to Netanel Trabotto: On Prayer
A letter from his honor R. Samuel Corcos, son of his honor R. Abraham, of blessed memory, a teacher in the holy community of Senigallia, which he sent to the…