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.
Sha‘ar ha-yiḥudim (The Gate of Unifications)
If you prostrate yourself over the graves of the righteous, you need to have the proper intention, so that through your prostration, you will cause the soul of that righteous person to…
To You, Lord God, we call out
To You, Lord God, we call out
With cries and with clamoring
For we are most distressed.
See how we lose hope
If no one comes to our rescue.
You protect lost children,
The helpless orphans,
The…
Seder nashim (Order of Women): On Obligations
This is a prayer book for women in Ladino for the whole year, with its order of blessings at the end. And the order for washing the hands and many other laws applicable to all of the most common…
Divre shalom (Words of Peace)
In this way God sought to clarify, test, and verify the lesson which I wrote that the Torah is the essence of all entities, in two respects. First, in the previous sermon I wrote that God…
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…
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…