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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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Psalm 51

For the leader. A psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him after he had come to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, as befits Your faithfulness; in keeping with Your abundant…

Jehoash’s Fable

He [Amaziah] defeated ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and he captured Sela in battle and renamed it Joktheel, as is still the case. Then Amaziah sent envoys to King Jehoash son of…

Praise of the Man’s Body

My beloved is clear-skinned and ruddy, Preeminent among ten thousand. His head is finest gold, His locks are curled And black as a raven. His eyes are like doves By watercourses, Bathed in milk…
Sculpture of bearded man wearing shawl, with mouth open and hands clasped.
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Moses’ Death

Mendes da Costa was best known for the reliefs he sculpted for buildings in Amsterdam (many of which were figures of animals) in the style of the Niewe Kunst, the Dutch variant of Art Nouveau. But he…

The Queen of Sheba

On the Lord’s hills, white with lustrous light, Far from rich palaces reeking of wine, Drunk on the night and sidereal sadness, The King dreams in self-imposed exile. Below, mid the wheat, the…

For Mother

Mother, there’s a tedium today, some sadness that’s got into everything, even an ambitious man’s dreams show signs of a slow despair. Mother, try loving your self-despising son on a day he’s alone an…

My Astarte

My Astarte, won’t you tell me: from where    Did you come to us in this valley? Was it in the hand of a merchant (Canaanite) of Sidon    From [the] city stronghold of the sea, through waves of agate…