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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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God’s Paternal Love for Israel

I fell in love with Israel When he was still a child; And I have called [him] My son Ever since Egypt. Thus were they called, But they went their own way; They sacrifice to Baalim And offer to…

The Concealed Alternative

What is the testimony that proves my guilt? The punishment itself. Although Naomi says that she must have been guilty, it’s as if she doesn’t really know what she is guilty of. It’s only when things…

Sins and Destruction

The word of the Lord that came to Zephaniah son of Cushi son of Gedaliah son of Amariah son of Hezekiah, during the reign of King Josiah son of Amon of Judah. I will sweep everything away From the…

Today’s Ruth

In the book of Ruth we read an extraordinary expression of love between two women, spoken by a daughter-in-law to her mother-in-law. The text has often been read as a reflection of Judaism’s position…

Psalm 29

A psalm of David. Ascribe to the Lord, O divine beings, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. Ascribe to the Lord the glory of His name; bow down to the Lord, majestic in holiness. The voice of…

Psalm 137

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat, sat and wept, as we thought of Zion. There on the poplars we hung up our lyres, for our captors asked us there for songs, our tormentors, for amusement, “Si…
Sculpture of elongated head and neck.
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Head of a Woman

Between 1909 and 1915, Amedeo Modigliani created about twenty-five stone sculptures, using techniques he learned from the modernist sculptor Constantin Brancusi. The sculptures were inspired by…
Painting of angel with hand resting on the head of a young boy seated on a barrel.
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The Lad Bialik

Ira Jan created this hagiographical depiction of her lover Chaim Nahman Bialik being anointed by angels as a child shortly before she was deported by Ottoman authorities to Egypt. Her romantic…
Portrait photograph of soldier wearing helmet and stern expression.
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From the series Jewish Soldiers

This series by Helmar Lerski pictured Jewish soldiers fighting with the British Army during World War II—all in all, about a hundred men and women. All the portraits are in Lerski’s distinctive…
Bronze sculpture depicting a standing man, surrounded by harsh foliage and holding a rooster above his head.
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The Prayer

Jacques Lipchitz created The Prayer in 1943 to express his horror over the mass murder of Jews, which was then underway in Europe, reportedly crying as he made the statue. The central figure in The…

The Banner of the Jew

Wake, Israel, wake! Recall to-day    The glorious Maccabean rage, The sire heroic, hoary-gray,    His five-fold lion-lineage: The Wise, the Elect, the Help-of-God,    The Burst-of-Spring, the…