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.
In der Krieau
Tina Blau is best known for her landscapes, which she painted in the style known as Stimmungsimpressionismus (mood impressionism). She played a key role in developing the style in Austria. Der Krieau…
La Juive (The Jewess)
Amedeo Modigliani painted La Juive before he developed the signature style of his late work: portraits of women with elongated necks and faces. But a hint of that style can be seen here in the…
Still Life with a Picture of Napoleon
Still Life with a Picture of Napoleon is one of many still lifes that Dezső Czigány painted. Like many of his other compositions, it demonstrates cubist and fauvist influences. In this picture, the…
L'Image de la femme (The Image of Woman)
When Claude Cahun took this self-portrait photograph, she was still Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob and had not yet adopted her new gender-neutral name. She is wearing a pinafore, sitting quietly at a desk…
The Descendants of Adam and the Genealogies of the Israelite Tribes
Adam, Seth, Enosh; Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared; Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech; Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. The sons…
Virtues That Merit Being in God’s Presence
A psalm of David.
Lord, who may sojourn in Your tent,
who may dwell on Your holy mountain?
He who lives without blame,
who does what is right,
and in his heart acknowledges the truth;
whose tongue…
Devil Sucking the Blood of a Sweatshop Tailor
Illustration from the German translation of Morris Rosenfeld’s Yiddish “sweatshop” poems, Lieder des Ghetto (Songs from the Ghetto). The illustrations in the deluxe book are in the art nouveau style…
The Reformed Hasid
“Before and After the Reform.” Cartoon from the Yiddish satiric publication Der Schlemiel: Illustriertes jüdisches Blatt für Humor und Satire, lampooning the transformation of a Hasidic Jew into a…
Ida Rubinstein as a Nurse
Famed dancer, actress, and patron of the arts Ida Rubinstein volunteered as a nurse in France during World War I, in a uniform specially designed for her by Léon Bakst. Rubinstein was born into a…
The Binding of Isaac
The Binding of Isaac was painted at a time when Aharon Kahana was developing a new style that favored abstract forms divided by thick lines. His paintings were both an embrace of modern European art…