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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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Things

From Hoza Street and Marszalkowska carts were moving, Jewish carts:   furniture, tables and chairs,   suitcases, bundles   and chests, boxes and bedding,   suits and portraits,   pots, linen and wall…

A Fire Is Kindled within Me

A fire [of joy] is kindled within me, when I recall [the spiritual climate] when I was in Yemen, [But] my soul [descended to] abysmal depths and was immensely astounded when I came to Zion. The Jews…

Amputation

And so its pain is unremitting, like an amputated leg This ash and feathery void chafes at us, They say two willows were seen in Mazowsze wearing green prayer shawls also a market stall in the middle…

To Uncle Tom and Other Such Jews

The Jew can be an ally of the black liberation movement and he should be. But first he must find himself. He must realize that his own struggle for liberation is a continuing one, that he also has…

Love and Illusion

Dedicated to my friend Ignacio Móntes de Oca. Why, if summer strips the garden Of flowers and verdant foliage, Does Spring so generously restore Lush greenery, soft flowers, And brilliant color; An…

Open Letter

Open Letter to His Most Worthy, Supreme Consistorial Counselor and Provost Teller at Berlin, from some Householders of the Jewish Religion But when the more perfect comes, the imperfect will pass…