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.
Diary Entry: On Yiddish Theater
23 October. The actors convince me by their presence time and again, to my consternation, that most of what I’ve written about them so far is wrong. It is wrong because I wrote about them with…
From Distant Lands
[ . . . ] Jewish immigration to South America has now been going on for fully twenty-five years, primarily to Argentina. This immigration began with such energy and…
Memoirs of a Man’s Maiden Years: Epilogue
The memoir published here is a substantial and valuable addition to the scientific literature on cases of erroneous sex determination. For the first time, an intelligent person gives an exhaustive…
Holiness in Flesh/On Physical Exercise
Just as King David combined his ability as warrior with his sacred liturgical activity, so nowadays physical exercise done to provide the Nation with strength and the spiritual exercises of the…
Bar-Kokhba
The war broke out in its full might; it was a matter of life and death. The nation was expending all of its energies. The wondrous accomplishments of Israel’s heroes had been for naught. Jerusalem was…
The Modern Period in Jewish History: Its Distinctiveness, Essence, and Shape
The terms “recent generations” or “modern times” are commonly employed to denote the period of history which is close to us not only in time, but also in character—in its material circumstances…
Language Insomnia
At the beginning of the Jewish labor movement in the Pale of Settlement in Russia, Jewish youth began to return from Russian to Yiddish. This started with a free choice, as later on we chose Hebrew…