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.
Tokhaḥat megula (The Admonition of Magula)
Here is a song that I created,
well composed and uncomplicated;
you can call it a song or call it a dirge.
I’d like to tell you some of my troubles:
some men have problems by…
The Last War or the Third, That Is the Question: A Conversation in Kibbutz Ein-Shemer
Avishai:There’s nothing joyful about the guys who returned from the war. I don’t have the feeling that this is the last time that the people sitting here will put on uniform. Right after the war the…
Le Grand Pas (Score)
Score of “Le Grand Pas” from the ballet Paquita, which premiered in Paris in 1846 and which, in adapted form, became a mainstay of classical ballet.
La tragedia della fame (The Tragedy of Hunger)
This sketch by Aldo Carpi is one of a series he made during World War I, documenting not only the carnage of the battlefield but also refugees displaced by the war. The Serbian army retreated to…
Chinese Restaurant
Max Weber’s Chinese Restaurant was one of a number of paintings with the same subject made in the early twentieth century by American artists. Chinatown and Chinese restaurants were popular tourist…
The Watchmaker
Like other paintings by Yehudah Pen, The Watchmaker depicts an encounter between a traditional Jew and modernity. Here, a traditionally dressed watchmaker reads the Warsaw Yiddish newspaper Haynt…
Portrait of Anna Akhmatova
Natan Altman’s portrait of Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) is his best-known work. He painted the famous poet in St. Petersburg in a cubist style, against a background of blue quartzlike and green…
Geviksn
Cover page of Avrom Golomb's reworking of G. Bocz’s Yiddish-language biology textbook, Geviksn (Plants). Nothing is known about the original author, G. Bocz (or Botsh).
Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Venice
This image of Gertrude Stein and her life partner Alice B. Toklas (1877–1967) was taken by an unknown photographer in the Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy. Written by Stein, The Autobiography of Alice…
Portrait of Dr. Ephraim Hezekiah Bueno
Rembrandt van Rijn lived in the part of Amsterdam where the artists’ guild (St. Luke’s Guild) was located. By coincidence, it was also home to a number of Jews. Rembrandt’s artworks attest to an…
Maḥzor for the Rite of Carpentras
This maḥzor (holiday prayer book) contains the festival prayers for the whole year, according to the rite of Carpentras, and was copied in Provence. The Jews of the former papal territory of Comtat…
My palate speaks your praise: For the Sabbath before Purim
All my bones say: O Lord, who is like you?
My palate speaks your praise, O my Rock, my Redeemer, my King;
You bring light to my darkness and bring me out of destruction.
The…