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.
I Saw Myself in a Dream
I saw myself in a dream
Head bent, on the fifth floor
I was thinking of something, looking out the window
Recalling something, I suppose.
And the sidewalk was so close,
Looking up at me with mild…
My Dear Shtetl Motele
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Grandma Rekhl—my mother’s mother, whose name the members of the household and the people of the town all pronounced with exactness: Rekhl precisely with an “e,”…
Po‘ale Tsiyon’s Approach on Palestine
Given the socioeconomic life-conditions that obtain in the capitalist countries, the Jewish national group [folk-grupe]—as a people without its own national economy—will inevitably always feel a sharp…
A Jewish Reform Project with Particular Consideration Given to Its Ethical Aspect
In our past lie the answers to all the problems that our present time raises, and in it also lie the keys to the secret gates of our future. [ . . . ]
Onto ground already prepared since the time of…
Meeting Minutes on the Brenner Affair
Meeting of the Committee comprising: Chairman—Mr. M. Ussishkin; Committee Member—Mr. Ḥ. Ettinger. Candidates—Messrs. Ravnitzki and Raymist; Members of the Audit Committee—Mr. Bialik, Dr. Klausner, Mr…
Jewish Immigrants on the SS Patricia
Immigrants on a ship from Hamburg, Germany, arriving in New York, December 10, 1906. They were among the 15 million immigrants who came to the United States between 1900 and 1915. Most of the…
Self-Portrait with a Palette
Yehudah Pen painted this self-portrait shortly after opening the School of Drawing and Painting in Vitebsk. An early example of his self-portraiture, the painting is simple compared to later ones…
Le Cantique des Cantiques (The Song of Songs)
This erotic illustration by Joseph Chaikov was made for a lavish edition of the biblical Song of Songs published by the Yiddish Kultur-lige in Kiev in 1918–1919. The forms of the embracing couple here…
Revealment and Concealment
For it is clear that language with all its associations does not introduce us at all into the inner area, the essence of things, but that, on the contrary, language itself stands as a barrier before…
Banquet Menu
Menu for a banquet given in honor of District Grand Lodge No. 7, International Order of B’nai B’rith at the West End Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, on May 11, 1886.
Rebbe Israel Ba‘al Shem Tov
The Birth of the Ba‘al Shem Tov
One of the greatest phenomena, running like a thread throughout the spiritual history of the Jewish people, is mysticism, a remnant of ancient mythology, which could…
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War
I thought of the beautiful angel in the picture that had hung over our bed before the war. Her giant wings hovering over, almost enveloping two children crossing a bridge over a ravine. Please make my…