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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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Why Do the Heathen Rage?

The latest attempt to salvage poor shipwrecked Judaism in America is on. The Menorah Journal summoned the doughtiest intellectuals to this heroic task. These came highly equipped with trenchant pen…

Popular Poetry of the Russian Jews

[ . . . ] Similarly, the Russian Jews use the traditional rhyming couplet in those verses that chronicle a historical event or inculcate an ethical truth. The real folksongs, however, are set to music…

Responsa of Achiezer

[ . . . ] During the Middle Ages and the decrees of the year 5408 [1648], when our brethren the children of Israel believed with real faith in the Almighty and in His…

Sermon on the Melting Pot

There is no denying that under the influence of this enthusiasm for America, the disintegrating process of the Melting Pot is taking place in large measure. That it is not, fortunately, taking place…

An Exchange on the Jewish Question

Is there a Jewish people? Thousands of Jews, whose language at school and in daily discourse is Hebrew, are again living in Palestine. Neo-Hebrew literature has essayists like Ahad Ha-Am, poets like B…

My Restlessness Is of a Wolf

My restlessness is of a wolf, and of a bear my rest, Riot shouts in me, and boredom listens. I am not what I want, I am not what I think, I am the magician and I’m the magic-trick. I am an ancient…

Outlines of Liberal Judaism

[ . . . ] God chose the Jews: they are a chosen people, though not a people (as I hold and as I shall subsequently maintain) in the sense that the English or the…

Abischag

King David was old, advanced in years. Though covered in bedclothes, he could not get warm. They searched the land of Israel for a beautiful young woman and found Abischag the Shunammite, who was…

To the Common Man

When they begin to plaster the walls With freshly printed proclamations, When black print sounds alarm Calling “To the People” and “To Soldiers” And ruffians and adolescents Are taken in by their…

Joseph the Righteous

Zlikha:I will leave him in prison now[for] he has committed a great sin.May he taste the recompense of his evil deed thereand may this wicked man die.[They take Yosef and she remains perplexed and at…

Zangwill

Someone gathered rich apples, rich corn, Grown of your heart and your brain, And in me, as a loft, has stored Some of the fruit and grain. The loft smells sweet with its store: The corn for making…