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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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On Women’s Voting

. . . We believe that our outlook on social life in general is more refined and purer than that of contemporary civilized nations. Our family is sacred to us in a manner more profound than [is the…

Speech: On Jews and Nationalism

Are we always and in all circumstances united with our surroundings, so that only the synagogue, rather than society, attests to separation? Do not believe that in such unity and cooperation I mean…

Assimilation or Polonization?

Assimilation, taken literally, means making things similar to each other, and in this concrete instance refers to a desire for the assimilation of Jews in terms of language, culture, and customs to…

The Hebrew Book

Literary-minded Jews have long been perplexed by a strange phenomenon. Our literature which is thousands of years old, comprises tens of thousands of volumes, and represents the many creative forces…

A Tale of Rebbe Yisroel of Ruzhin

Our master, the holy rabbi, told a tale of the Ba‘al Shem Tov (may his memory be for a blessing to the life of the world to come!). There was once a matter involving great danger to the human life of…

Jewboy

He sings in the courtyard, clad in rags A small, poor chap, a crazed Jew. People drive him away, God has muddled his wits Ages and exile have confused his tongue He wails and he dances, weeps and…

Holy Grandmothers in Jerusalem

Holy grandmothers in Jerusalem, May your virtue protect me. The smell of blossoms and blooming orchards I suckled with my mother’s milk. Feet soft as hands, fumbling In the torrid sand, And tousled…