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.
Self-Portrait
This is one of only four known self-portraits by Camille Pissarro. It was painted around the time that Pissarro and other rebellious artists broke from the traditional art establishment by forming…
Antisemitism and the Social Crisis
To speak with competence about anti-Semitism, some studies would be necessary, which I have not done. I can therefore only give you my impression.
First of all, there would be grounds, I believe, to…
The Jewish Question in Hungary
Social and judicial reforms will not solve the universal Jewish question, nor will they bring an answer to the Hungarian Jewish question; they can only solve internal technical issues, which, as we…
The Pittsburgh Platform
In view of the wide divergence of opinion and of the conflicting ideas prevailing in Judaism today, we, as representatives of Reform Judaism in America, in continuation of the work begun at…
From the Hebrew Stage in Jerusalem
Last Saturday night, the “Amateurs of the Hebrew Stage” in Jerusalem staged Molière’s comedy Harpagon [The Miser].1 A large and diverse audience of Jerusalemites filled the hall. It would seem that…
A Bag of Lies
Our associates claim—and in moments of weakness we tend to agree—that this compilation has no need for introduction because the subjects speak for themselves. In addition, we cannot…
Portrait of Menasseh Ben Israel
This engraving of famed intellectual Menasseh ben Israel, made by Shalom Italia, is one of the earliest known portraits of a Jewish thinker by a Jewish artist. Italia highlights Menasseh's scholarly…
Portrait of Yeḥiel Mikhel ben Nathan of Lublin
The rhymed Hebrew inscription below the picture of Yeḥiel Mikhel ben Nathan of Lublin notes that he had formerly been a cantor in Lublin and is presently serving in that role in Amsterdam, in 1699…
Daughters of Francisco Lopes Suasso
Don Francisco (Abraham Israel) Lopes Suasso (ca. 1657–1710), a prominent financier of Portuguese Jewish heritage, had ten children with his second wife, Leonora (Rachel) da Costa (1669–1749). In this…
Latin-Hebrew Edition of Jossipon
The supposed author of Josippon (an account of Jewish history from the Garden of Eden to the destruction of the Second Temple) was Josephus Flavius, though it is now generally believed that the book…
Moth
Ben-Zvi’s early paintings focused on ecology and nature. He often depicted human and ecological disasters, calling attention to the fragility of human and animal life. The birds and insects featured…
Untitled
Though Nikel’s style of expressionist abstraction has sometimes been characterized as lyrical abstraction, a style associated with Israel’s New Horizons group, she was not formally connected with any…