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.
Between the River Prat and Hidekel Stream
Between the River Prat and stream Hidekel
on a mountaintop there waves a palm.
And in the palm, among its fronds
lives a hummingbird of gold.
Golden bird! Fly and wheel
go out and find for me my…
Book of Memoirs
On the third August 1889 I departed from London for South Africa on the steamship Drummond Castle. There were two hundred passengers comprising British, Hollanders, Germans and eleven Jews. We Jews…
Reflections on the Purity, or Otherwise, of the Bene Israel Race in India
“Is the Bene-Israel in India a pure Jew by descent” is the question often asked and discussed. There has been considerable literature on the subject especially by aliens, even such as can claim little…
From Homer's The Iliad
[ . . . ] I have striven to transmit exactly the course of thought, the spirit, and the expressions of the [original] text; thus, you have before you not a “reworking” but a true translation.I have…
Piyyut in Honor of R. Faradji Chaouat
O our God! O our God!May Rabbi Frājī be with us.Come, people, and hear what happened to Rabbi Frājī, how he passed on.He sent after the gozbar and said to him “Come before us.”When the gozbar cam…
A Soldier’s Diary Entries
18 April 7 pm. News. Amzanak told us that the CO [commanding officer] had asked him how many men we had, what they were doing, and whether many could work with wagons, and Amzanak said that we had…
