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.
Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezin
At the end of the workday, the children were allowed to visit their parents and relatives for one hour. Sometimes there were longer visits on Saturday afternoons and Sundays. But there were no visits…
The Dead Class
In The Dead Class, the most famous of Kantor’s theater pieces from the 1970s, the main characters of the play are elderly men (who are to be understood as being dead), who return to their school desks…
New York, 1979
Levitt was best known for her black-and-white photographs of children at play, often found in doorways or on stoops, in New York City. It is far less known that she was also a pioneer of color…
Hitler Dream
Many of Borofsky’s works are based on autobiographical narratives or his dreams about people such as movie stars, his family, other artists, and historical figures, including Hitler. The text in this…
Untitled
In 1981, Anastasi (who is not Jewish) began working on a series of works featuring the word “Jew,” because of its “charged” positive and negative valences. Untitled (jew) is composed of four canvases…
Outstanding European
In the 1980s, during the AIDS epidemic, Bleckner began creating artworks that explored death, loss, and sadness. His dark and moody canvases included objects, such as urns, vases, and chandeliers…
Cell No. 1
The “Cellules,” or Cells, were six tiny all-white living spaces that Absalon planned to install in Tokyo, Paris, Zurich, New York, Tel Aviv, and Frankfurt. He intended to live in them, so they were…
A Postcolonial Kinderhood
Reichek used needlework to comment on and subvert the embroidered sampler, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century woman’s craft, transforming it into a feminist exploration of the exposure and…
Nine Out of Four Hundred (The West and the Rest)
In this photograph, which has become an important image to represent Mizraḥi protest in Israel, artist Meir Gal holds the official Jewish history textbook used in Israeli high schools in the 1970s by…
Dad III
Dad III was created for Family Business, photographer Epstein’s multi-media project about his father, William Epstein, and the fall of his family’s furniture store and real-estate business in Holyoke…
Chronicle on the Death of Sultan Osman II and the Reigns of Mustafa and Murad
Sunday, 15th of the aforementioned month [Elul; 10.9.1623]. The Sipahis [feudal cavalrymen] and the Janissaries [professional infantry corps] and all the king’s slaves and ministers came to speak with…
Takkanot (Regulations)
Since D. Bendito has done us the favor of prevailing upon his highness, the Duke of Modena, to allow us into his state with such love and grace…