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.
Power/Jew Süss
[ . . . ] After the intractable insolence shown by Süss when his sentence was pronounced, he was fettered cross-wise in the Chamber of Nobles, where he was to be confined until execution, and kept…
Tristia
I have studied the science of leaving
in night’s unbraided sorrows.
Oxen ruminate—the waiting lingers to the final
hour of the city’s vigil—and I honor rituals
from that other night—the rooster…
The Sins of My Youth
There are two sorts of biography: the biography a famous person writes for his admirers, because the public likes to know everything about celebrities, and [the] autobiography, usually written because…
Tsvi Nishri and Maccabi Tel Aviv
Founded in 1906 as Rishon Lezion Yafo, the sports association changed its name to Maccabi Tel Aviv in 1910. Maccabi, the first Jewish sports association, was established in Istanbul in 1895 primarily…
Esther Play for Purim
Purim plays (Purim shpiln, in Yiddish), sometimes also called Esther plays, have been known since the fifteenth century in both Ashkenazic and Sephardic communities. These folk plays were performed on…
1920 Diary
Isaac Babel offers a stark and unflinching account of the pogroms, looting, and violence against Jewish communities he witnessed as a war correspondent during the Polish-Soviet War.
Sites of Jewish or New Christian Residence in Early Modern Western Europe
Following the expulsion of Jews from the Iberian Peninsula in the late fifteenth century, Jews settled in areas of Europe that promoted religious tolerance. Others concealed their identities as New…
