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.
Advice and Further Reflections
When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfill it. For He has no pleasure in fools; what you vow, fulfill. It is better not to vow at all than to vow and not fulfill. [ . . . ]
If…
Nijinsky as the Faun
The cover of the theater program for the Ballets Russes’ seventh season is illustrated with an image of Vaslav Nijinsky wearing a costume designed by Léon Bakst for the ballet L’Apres-Midi d’un Faune…
David’s Letter to Joab
In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, which he sent with Uriah. He wrote in the letter as follows: “Place Uriah in the front line where the fighting is fiercest; then fall back so that he…
Complaint about Demoralizing the Troops
To my lord, Yaush, may YHWH cause my lord to see peace at this time! Who is your servant, a dog, that my lord sent him the king’s [lette]r [and] the letters of the officers, saying, “Please read!” And…
Country Accident
This early photograph by André Kertész was taken during World War I in Esztergom, Hungary, where he was recuperating from a battlefield injury. Kertész shot it only a few years after he bought his…
Jacob’s Descendants
These are the names of the Israelites, Jacob and his descendants, who came to Egypt.
Jacob’s first-born Reuben; Reuben’s sons: Enoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. Simeon’s sons: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad…
Praise of the Man’s Body
My beloved is clear-skinned and ruddy,
Preeminent among ten thousand.
His head is finest gold,
His locks are curled
And black as a raven.
His eyes are like doves
By watercourses,
Bathed in milk…
Sandor Schmidl Mausoleum (Jewish Cemetery, Budapest)
The elaborate art-nouveau tomb of the wealthy Schmidl family in the Rákoskeresztúr Jewish cemetery in Budapest is made of ceramic tile made by the Zsolnay factory, famous for its art-nouveau ceramics…
View of a Street in Zikhron Ya‘akov
Zikhron Ya‘akov was first established near the city of Haifa as an agricultural settlement in 1882 by Jewish immigrants from Romania. A year later, it became the beneficiary of philanthropist Baron…
Four Bullas from the City of David
[Belonging to Tobshillem/Tobshalem (?)] son of Zakkur the healer.
Tents of New Immigrants in the Vicinity of Allenby Street, Tel Aviv
The British high commissioner for Palestine, Herbert Samuel, officially designated Tel Aviv a township in 1921. Thanks to former residents of Jaffa and immigrants from Europe (who arrived during what…
White Crucifixion
White Crucifixion was the first of several paintings that Chagall made in which Jesus represented Jewish suffering. His use of Christian imagery was controversial, but he was not the first Jewish…