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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.
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Your eyebrow, dear, is like a charm

Your eyebrow, dear, is like a charm    that draws to you life’s greatest joys. Rounded like a bow, that brow,    or like a moon in half eclipse. Your eye, beside it, is a pool,    all sparkle, like a…

Three Picture Poems

The turning wheel runs round and round.    It opens and closes the exit of my gate. Noisily it turns for ruin and destruction.    My head is split, my entrails spilled. It chases and it catches…

Europe

I have always backed off from the word. In the Thirties Europe meant French. But was it only then? Not in earlier centuries? A bloody lesson learned that Europe was Balmazújváros as well as Notre…

In a Nutshell

Credo in a kind of American jewish Hamlet-like bagel, too round for action yet leavened enough by contact with the near-dead past—you call it landscape, I call it history—to provide a layered vantage…