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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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Page of Aramaic text framed by floral ornament with crown in top center and signatures in Roman alphabet and Spanish writing on bottom.
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Ketubah (Bordeaux)

This is the marriage contract (ketubah) that Isaac, the son of Aaron Sasportas, gave to Rebecca, the daughter of Abraham Pinto. A floral decoration stemming from a vase at the bottom of the contract…
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Print engraving of people on boat docking at a graveyard and lifting out a tomb.
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Jewish Funeral in Ouderkerk

This etching depicts a body being brought for burial in the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish cemetery at Ouderkerk, the oldest Jewish cemetery (est. 1614) in the Netherlands, located on the Amstel River.
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Print with central rectangular scene of men at podium surrounded by ten circles with images of figures and animals, and scene at bottom of large crowd outside city.
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Latin-Hebrew Edition of the Mishnah

This page comes from the first of six volumes of Guilielmus Surenhuys’s translation of the Mishnah into Latin, printed in Amsterdam. At center is a depiction of Moses and Aaron standing beside a…
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Mif‘alot Elohim (The Works of God)

A baby that has fallen from a high place and become mute, his mother should take his hand and place it in her womb and afterwards thrust that hand into the mouth of the baby. After that, the woman…
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To Kill a Foe

To kill a foe: write these twelve names on deerskin or calfskin parchment on Monday evening at the third or fourth hour, or at those times at night. And this is what you shall write:He who gives forth…
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