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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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To the Worker Women

Laboring women, suffering women Women who languish in factory and home— Why stand at a distance, why build not our temple Of humanity’s joy, and of freedom sublime? Help us to bear the red banner…

Palestine and World Jewry

This will be the first of my addresses before the Zionist Congresses to deal not with the various questions involved in the upbuilding of Palestine but with the significance of…

The Mizrachi Manifesto

Pave the way! Pave the way!More than twenty years have passed since the idea that we now call Zionism began to reawaken among the Jews, though its essence and intensity had never ceased among the…

To My Soldier Son

My precious heart, my handsome soldier son, I write this letter with my blood to you. Since you’ve had to take the Kaiser’s shilling our world has turned red of a fiery hue. The big decisive battle…

To the Readers (of Yerushalayim)

As I was completing the first volume of this book of ours, I was on my way to Vienna, and the late scholar, Mr. [Peretz] Smolenskin of blessed memory, in his desire to complete the printing, wrote…

The Mission of Ha-Shiloaḥ

In establishing this monthly periodical today, we believe that we are doing that which the times demand, its absence being felt by many. We are not establishing a study house for sages who will sit…

Di yugend Editorial Statement

With this number, Di yugend passes into new hands—the hands of its writers. It is no secret that Yiddish writers, especially young Yiddish writers—and most of the contributors to this monthly journal…

Halachah and Aggadah

But must we conclude—as many think—that Halachah and Aggadah are two irreconcilable opposites? Those who so conclude are confusing accident and form with substance; as who should declare the ice and…

Resolution Favoring Zionism

A convention of Orthodox Congregations met in New York, Wednesday, June 8, 1898. A resolution favoring Zionism was adopted.The principles of the convention adopted are as follows:This Conference of…

Ghetto Twilight

An infinite weariness comes into the faces of the old tenements, As they stand massed together on the block, Tall and thoughtful silent, In the enveloping twilight. Pensively, They eye each other…