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.

Print engraving of crowd of people outside of building gathered around couple under wedding canopy.

Marriage Ceremony

Manuscript page with Hebrew writing arranged in the form of a tree, with drawings of candelabrum, cherubs, and table in center, and drawing of dragon and figures on bottom left of the page.

Sefirotic Tree

Printed page with English and two Hebrew sentences near top and bottom of page.

A Grammar of the Hebrew Tongue

Printed page of Hebrew text framed by arch with columns of garlands and a border of Hebrew text.

Jacob Huli’s Me‘am lo‘ez (From a People of Foreign Tongue)

Bronze mortar decorated with a seven-branched candelabrum, flanked with the Hebrew letters mem and resh.

Bronze Physician’s Mortar

Printed page with male figures in various poses with one pointing to a sculpture in the background of seated figure on pedestal with Latin text on it.

Thesaurus Antiquitatum Sacrarum I

Abstract painting featuring a large woman being held in the air by an angel, waving her hands over floating table in front of her, with people, houses, and plants floating below her feet.

Sabbath

Photograph of interior of store with fish behind a glass counter and foodstuffs on shelves, with a man in a butcher's apron in center talking to a bearded man in a suit next to several barrels of fish and another man behind them.

Fish Bargain, NYC

Photograph depicting two jumpsuits hanging between two large windows superimposed over an image of a human figure standing with their back turned.

Dachau, 1985

Photograph depicting man in kippah, gloves, and glasses and holding a pen examining a Torah scroll upon which sits two tefillin boxes.

Scribe, N.Y.C.

Art installation of inverted triangle with object underneath.

Memory: The Homosexual Memorial Imagination

Shevet Yehudah (The Staff of Judah)

The slaughter that occurred there, in Lisbon: I was out of the city, and when I returned after several days they told me that the two [events, namely, the massacre within Lisbon and in the surrounding…