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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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You, My Master

You, my master, my hidden enemy! I see you hidden In the wind that is around all, in all, everywhere: In my uneasy sleep, in my dark fear at morning, In my labors by day, in my bread and my salt. C…

Sanatorium

Gate, open doorsill, creep near. Room, I’m here; back to the cell. Fire in my flesh. snow on my skull. My shoulder heaves a sack of grief. Good-bye. Good-bye. Hand. Eye. Burning lip charred by…

Red Riding-Hood

When our wild day is wiped like a tear From cities and forest, from month and year, Red Ridinghood walks on the road, To pick a wild flower in the wood. And following her is a duck and a cow, Hobbl…

An Epistle to Hebrew Youth

The Committee for the Consolidation of Hebrew Youth appeals to you only in order that you understand the very essence of what is in common between you and the rest of Hebrew youth, which operates in…

The Butterfly

He was the last. Truly the last. Such yellowness was bitter and blinding Like the sun’s tear shattered on stone. That was his true color. And how easily he climbed, and how high. Certainly, climbing…

And in That Drowning Instant

And in that drowning instant as the water heightened over me it suddenly did come to pass my preterite eternity the image of myself intent on several freedoms fading to myself in yellowed Basle…

God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children

God has pity on kindergarten children, He pities school children—less. But adults he pities not at all. He abandons them, And sometimes they have to crawl on all fours In the scorching sand To reach…