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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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Letter to Shabbetai Tzvi

Indeed, in order to do the will of my Father who is in heaven, I came in fear, trembling and trepidation, with a bow of my head and a prostration of my body, “spreading out my arms and my legs” [b…

Israelite Chronology

2000–1200 BCE Traditional Dates of Patriarchs and Sojourn in Egypt 1200 BCE Settlement in Canaan 1200–1025 BCE Chieftains (“Judges”) and Tribal Rule 1025–928 BCE United Monarchy of Israel…
Portrait photograph of a woman looking at the camera and holding up a cigarette in her left hand.
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Portrait of Hannah Arendt

Alfred Bernheim’s intimate portrait of Hannah Arendt portrays her as casual and self-confident, lounging on a couch and smoking a cigarette. Arendt was one of the most famous intellectuals of the…
Lithograph depicting woman in hat working on traditional printing press as man in kippah turns the wheel, set in large square frame.
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Shrine II

In the 1960s, Miriam Schapiro created a series of works she called “shrines.” Each consisted of four panels, with borders that suggested frames, in which she explored her identities as artist, wife…
Abstract painting with dynamic colors arranged to look like a flame.
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Solar Flame

Solar Flame is one of many oil paintings by Leonardo Nierman that reflect his fascination with solar flares, shooting stars, and volcanos. The sense of swirling movement evoked by the explosion of…