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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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Photograph of three boys looking at a book together.
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The Fairy Tale

This early photograph by André Kertész was taken during World War I in Esztergom, Hungary, where he was recuperating from a battlefield injury. Kertész shot it only a few years after he bought his…

The Conquered Kings of Canaan

And the following are the local kings whom Joshua and the Israelites defeated on the west side of the Jordan—from Baal-gad in the Valley of the Lebanon to Mount Halak, which ascends to Seir—which…

A Description of Tyre

The word of the Lord came to me: Now you, O mortal, intone a dirge over Tyre. Say to Tyre: O you who dwell at the gateway of the sea, Who trade with the peoples on many coastlands: Thus said the…
Paper with Aramaic text surrounded by colonnades and elaborate, interlaced pattern around perimeter.
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Rhodes Ketubah

This ketubah (ritual marriage contract) from Rhodes formalizes the marriage of Avraham, son of Yehudah Galante, and Joya, daughter of Shlomo d’Boton. The groom may have been the prominent educator…

Yehud Seal Impressions

Seal impression on jar handle: Yehud. Seal impression on jar handle: Yehud, the Governor. Seal impression on jar handle: Yehud, Yehoezer, the Governor. Seal impression on jar handle: (Belonging) to…
Rug depicting a bearded man with crossed arms on top half, and two columns and hanging lamp on bottom half, surrounded by decorative border.
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Herzl Rug

The machine-woven rugs produced by the Torah u-mel’aḥah trade school in Jerusalem for export to France were typically red and rectangular (similar to Turkish prayer carpets), and they featured the…
Illustration of four figures sitting at a table, sewing.
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Jewish Tailor’s Workshop

This engraving depicting a tailor’s workshop was printed along with others portraying Jewish immigrant life in London, England, in the Illustrated London News in 1891.
Illustration in three horizontal panels, with Hebrew text running along the border and labeling the illustrations, which include two figures, an angel, fire, and ram at top of page; donkey, trees, and several figures in the center; and two figures in front of a line of ten camels at the bottom.
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Akedah Story

The caption on the top image reads: The binding of Isaac [is] today; remember his seed with mercy. The top labels, right to left: Abraham; Isaac; angel; fire; ram. The caption in the middle picture…
Photograph of man sitting on beach in hat and suit with hookah pipe in hand.
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Self-Portrait on Tel Aviv Beach

Korbman sometimes included himself in his photographs documenting life in Tel Aviv. Here, he sits on the beach smoking a hookah. There was often a quirky edge to his photographs. He belonged to the…