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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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Once I Was Young

Once I was young, hung out in doorways, listening to Socrates. My closest pal, my lover Had the finest chest in Athens. Then came Caesar, and a world glittering with marble—I the last to go. For my…

The Weeping of Generations

On the white garments of my great-grandfather the cross of the middle ages flames anew. My great-grandfather sits at the seder, holding a staff from a wild almond tree to rouse the forefathers. Not…

Alphabet Letters

In the Bronx, in Brooklyn and in New York City, My cousins all have stores. Seven cousins with seven stores, like commandments. Business people with long lists of going bankrupt. And my family-name…

Escape from Freedom

We see that the process of growing human freedom has the same dialectic character that we have noticed in the process of individual growth. On the one hand it is a process of growing strength and…

Black Flakes

Snow has fallen, with no light. A month has gone by now or two, since autumn in its monkish cowl brought tidings my way, a leaf from Ukrainian slopes: “Remember it’s wintry here too, for the…

To God in Europe

God, blood has overflowed the soul; among us, the weight of his killed kindred lies heavy on the head of every living creature. And it is Sinai, it is Nevo now. As for the goyim…

God No Longer Speaks

God no longer speaks as he did in the days of the Bible, he no longer shines in the firecloud over our roof. Adam and Eve have run into the depths of the garden from God’s unveiled presence, as we—we…

Next Year

Come next year we shall sit on the porch Count the birds flying north. Children on holiday will play catch Between the house and the meadow. You will see, you will yet see How good it will be In…

The Chatham House Version

This appraisal of the west has remained Toynbee’s considered judgment. “In my eyes,” he states in the last volume of A Study of History, published in 1961, “the west is a…

Jewish Writings

During the period between the two wars, the relations between Jews and Muslims progressively altered. One can assign several causes to this unfortunate evolution. One is the acceleration…