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.
World Dictionary of Hebrew Slang
Before the custodians of the purity of the Hebrew language begin to tear their hair out in protest of the so-called indecent acts committed herein, in full view, upon the…
Letter to an Arab Friend
The year was 1933: one automobile picked us up to take us both from Jerusalem to Haifa over the road which passes through Nablus. The boat which brought us to Marseilles allowed us to discover for the…
Igeret aliyat ha-neshamah (Epistle on the Ascent of the Soul)
You will assuredly regard it as wondrous, and it will gladden your heart that I too regarded as wondrous the vision vouchsafed to me by the Almighty in relation to the aliyot “ascents”—wondrous things…
Gingi, or, a Private Tent Camp
Night ThoughtsThat night, I had the weirdest thoughts. I don’t know why, but suddenly I thought to myself how great it is for a boy to have a bed as comfortable as my own. He can lie in bed and get a…
Israel Is Rejuvenated: In Praise of Prominent Synagogue Members
Israel is rejuvenated like the majestic
Eagle, in the Sapphire of faithfulness,
Flying in the goodness of observance,
Its gaze fixed on the…
Discursos predicaveis que o doctor Haham Yeoshua da Silva pregoe no Kahal Kados Saar a Samayim (Preaching Discourses That the Haham Josua da Silva Preached in the Shaar Asamayim Synagogue)
A King had many natural sons, whom he handed over to lords and princes, his vassals, to rear and feed, and he had another legitimate son whom he greatly loved, and brought him up with him in his…