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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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Painting of factory in background and water in foreground.
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Factory near Pontoise

Camille Pissarro painted landscapes that, unusually for the time, included industrial elements, like this sugar-beet factory near Pissarro’s home in Pontoise. Like other impressionist paintings, this…
Title page of score featuring a man pointing downward at a woman who is on the ground gripping a cross.
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Robert le diable

Robert le diable (Robert the Devil) is an opera in five acts composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer between 1827 and 1831. One of the first grand operas, it caused a sensation when it debuted at the Paris…

Letter against Zionism

With the Grace of God, Sunday, [the week of parshat] Beshalaḥ 5658 [1898], SighetTo my honorable friend, the famous sage, who is both rooted in the knowledge of [Torah from Mt.] Sinai and who uproots…

Sermon: On David and Jeroboam

To understand this parable [of David and Jeroboam in b. Sanhedrin 102], we must say that Rabba bar bar Ḥana also describes people of two different kinds, whose deeds and way of life are different from…

The Woman Poet

You hold me now completely in your hands My heart beats like a frightened little bird’s Against your palm. Take heed! You do not think A person lives within the page you thumb. To you this book is…

History of the Colony of Suriname

We will briefly mention several of his more important military expeditions. In the year 1731, Mr. Boeyé, Officer of the Christian Citizens Militia, received an order from the Council to carry out a…
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Map of the City of Venice, ca. 1729

This eighteenth-century map of Venice includes the ghetto within which the city’s Jews were required to live from 1516 until Napoleon’s conquest of the Republic of Venice in 1797. The Venice ghetto…