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.
Students on a Pommel Horse
Students at the Herzliya Gymnasium in Tel Aviv, the first modern Hebrew and Jewish national high school in Palestine. Founded by Zionist and Hebraist activists in 1905 in Jaffa and relocated to Tel…
Portrait of Moïse Kisling
Soutine was a prominent member of the School of Paris (École de Paris), a group of young artists, many of whom were Eastern and Central European Jews. He has been described as a “liminal” figure. He…
Marie “Mim” Rambert in Costume for Recital
Born Cyvia (Cesia) Ramberg in Warsaw to a middle-class Polonized family, Dame Marie “Mim” Rambert (1888–1982) was a dancer, choreographer, and patron of the arts. Sent to Paris by her parents after…
Townview with Bell Tower in the Background
This sepia watercolor-over-pencil picture is representative of the romantic landscapes and cityscapes for which Salomon Leonardus Verveer was best known. His work bridges the romantic tradition in…
“L’aigle déplumé! . . .” (The Bald Eagle!)
This caricature of Napoleon III (1808–1873), the last monarch of France, was made after the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), when Napoleon was being held in captivity in…
A Proposal
It is the same goal that the praiseworthy and renowned Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith [Central-Verein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens] has set itself for years and…
The Maccabees
Today it is possible for us to observe the process of Hellenization in individual features only. But these features are sufficiently significant to enable…
Yemenite Jews and the Geula Refugee Camp in Aden
The chapter of the wanderings of the Jews from Yemen to Aden remains shrouded in uncertainty. As of today, there has been no publication of a complete…
My First Lessons in Wolfenbüttel
In the year 1803, on Sunday afternoon the 5th of June, I and my uncle, accompanied—from the town gate onwards—by a soldier, arrived at the bet midrash, located at the Zimmerhofe. The soldier left us…
Sefer kiryat arba
There is a matter well known and widely publicized among all those who have come through the gates of our city, Constantinople [Istanbul], may God preserve it. . . . [I]t occurred about two years…
Why Our Forefather Adam Had to Bite the Apple
Dear reader, take out a sheet of paper and a pen and follow my calculations. This measure will not be pointless, as the numbers we will be dealing with are rather enormous, and mistakes can be easily…
Synagogue Judaica
This is the frontispiece of a 1661 edition of Synagoga Judaica, a study of the customs and culture of German Jewry by Christian Hebraist, and polemical critic of Judaism, Johannes Buxtorf the Elder…