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.
The Itinerary in the Wilderness
These were the marches of the Israelites who started out from the land of Egypt, troop by troop, in the charge of Moses and Aaron. Moses recorded the starting points of their various marches as…
Three Things . . . Four Things
The earth shudders at three things,
At four which it cannot bear:
A slave who becomes king;
A scoundrel sated with food;
A loathsome woman who gets married;
A slave-girl who supplants her…
Fiscal Bulla from Jerusalem
In the seventh (year). Bethlehem. For the King.
Translated by Ronny Reich.
Man with Torah
Frenkel, whose work was shaped by the School of Paris (École de Paris), played a key role in bringing modernism to Israeli art. Among his students were prominent members of what is known as the Land…
Billboards for Municipal Elections, Tel Aviv
The Hebrew sign in this photograph, from the 1927 municipal election in Tel Aviv in 1927, urges: “Vote gimel” (the Hebrew letter on the ballot representing a particular party or slate of candidates)…
Façades for the International Commission
In the Terezin concentration camp, before a visit by the International Red Cross and the Danish Red Cross in 1944, the Nazis created an elaborate ruse, designed to convince the delegation that the…
For the Fallen: Triptych
Mordechai Ardon believed that an artwork should be encountered on its own terms: its colors and composition and the relationship between them. He avoided overtly political or social themes, though his…
Social Housing Blocks in Upper Nazareth
For many years, Amiram Erev worked as a photographer for Solel Boneh, the large Israeli construction company founded by the Histadrut, Israel’s General Federation of Labor. The company played a key…
Fig Tree in Studio Window
Yehezkel Streichman painted Fig Tree in Studio Window during a time when he was becoming more and more of an abstract painter, developing a signature style involving the use of multiple layers of…
Humphreys and Mendoza: Their Third Public Contest for Superiority, on Sept. 29, 1790
Born in Aldgate, London, bare-knuckled pugilist Daniel Mendoza was the first Jew in England to become heavyweight champion, a title that he defended twice before losing it to John Jackson on a ninth…
Neither Forget nor Deny I Am a Jew
How preposterous and ridiculous! I have been attacked all my life as a Jew and because I am a Jew, and could not forget nor deny that I am a Jew, even if I wanted to. I am just as proud as Spinoza was…