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.
Kiryah ne’emanah (Faithful City)
1. Giedymin, the great prince of Lithuania, who dwelt in the fortress of the city of Troki, once went forth…
Wedding Ceremony
Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz’s Kirchliche Verfassung der heutigen Juden, sonderlich derer in Deutschland (Religious Constitution of Today’s Jews, Especially Those in Germany), published in…
Calendar Manual
Sifre ‘evronot—manuals for calculating the Jewish calendar, including leap years and holidays—were a popular genre of Ashkenazic illustrated manuscripts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries…
Collection of Yiddish Stories from Southern Germany
This page is from a manuscript containing stories in Yiddish. It was copied and illustrated in Tannhausen, Germany between 1580 and 1600, for the Ulma family, who owned a number of important…
The Clock I
Kuper is known for his work with found objects, such as spoons, saws, paintbrushes, and clocks. He depicts them in paintings and sometimes incorporates them into sculptures. The worn-out, quotidian…
Beach Scene, Rosh Hashanah
This photograph of Jewish men on a Miami beach carrying their prayer books to synagogue on Rosh Hashanah appeared in Nagler and Isaac Bashevis Singer’s 1991 book, My Love Affair with Miami Beach. The…
Tikkun Ha-Olam, Finding Home Series #46
Tikkun Ha-Olam (Repair of the World) is from Benjamin’s Finding Home series, in which the Bombay-born Jewish artist raises questions about what and where “home” is, while addressing issues such as…
From the Series Citroen Park
Citroen Park, an expansive area in the fifteenth arrondissement in Paris, was opened to the public in 1992 and became a major attraction for residents and tourists. There, young Parisians, among…
Tafsir on the Sacrifice of Isaac
Then Khalīāl answered God:
“I have sworn an oath upon the Truth;
I will not hold back my hand from Isaac
Until my oath is carried out. O Lord,
My condition to desist is a witnessed covenant,
That…
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…
Teacher and Students in a Heder, Lublin
This photograph of a heder, a traditional Jewish boys’ elementary school, has become an iconic photograph of pre-World War II Jewish life in Eastern Europe. The heder was often a one-room classroom…
Great Spruce Head Island
After immigrating to the United States in 1937, Ellen Auerbach continued her work as a children’s photographer. As a guest of the artist Fairfield Porter, she visited Great Spruce Head Island in Maine…