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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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Page with printed Yiddish text and small photograph of woman in center.
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Benefit Lunch with Bertha Kalich

This full-page advertisement for a benefit lunch, to be held that day, December 14, 1898, at the Thalia Theater in New York City, with the famed Yiddish actress Bertha Kalich (ca. 1872–1939), includes…
Printed page with Yiddish and English text and large decorative border.
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Irving Music Hall

This bilingual Yiddish-English cover of a program for a variety show at Irving Music Hall on New York City’s Lower East Side advertises “high class Jewish vaudeville” and bills itself as “the finest…
Drawing of figures in dancing positions.
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Dance Study

“Tanzstudie,” from Hans Brandenburg’s Der moderne Tanz. This "dance study" was based on an abstract, modernist dance performed by Alexander Sacharoff (1886–1963), whose distinctive expression and…
Painting of woman with headcovering framed in opening with cityscape in background.
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Song without Words

Song without Words, painted in Jaffa ca. 1911–1913. Like many of Jan’s works, this painting is suffused with poetic and atmospheric symbolism. Here, a beautiful young woman with haunted eyes holds a…
Photograph of figures sitting in furnished room.
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Thieves

This scene is from the 1917 Vilna Troupe production of Fishl Bimko’s Ganovim (Robbers), featuring, from left to right, Morris Tarlov, Avrom Teytlboym, Herts Grosbard, Luba Kadison, and Noyekh Nakhbush…
Page with Yiddish text and simple decorated border.
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Der pinkes (cover)

Der pinkes (The Book of Records, or The Annals) appropriated the term for the old-fashioned record book of a Jewish community or institution to name a very new phenomenon: the first “annual for the…
Photograph of three men and a woman in large hat seated at a table playing cards.
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Hokey Pokey

Known for their slapstick sketches, the duo Weber and Fields (Joseph Weber, 1867–1942, and Lew Fields, b. Moses Schanfield, 1867–1942) performed musical shows that included singing, dancing, burlesque…
Printed page of English text with several signatures throughout.
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Ketubah Abstract

Nathan Marcus Adler is credited with this first English translation of the ketubah (bridal contract), which had been preserved in its traditional Aramaic version. In Adler's time, English-speaking…
Page of Yiddish text with illustration of three boys next to a tree.
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Grininke beymelekh (cover)

Grininke beymelekh (Little Green Trees), no. 1 (Vilna: B. A. Kletzkin, 1914.) The title of this Yiddish children’s journal, the first of the genre to appear regularly, was drawn from the Yiddish poem…