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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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Approbation for a Printing House

“That which is well known needs no proof,” and the root cause is the skilled operating of the printing shop in the holy community of Żółkiew [Zhovkva], may the Rock preserve it, which was established…

I hope in the Lord at all times

I hope in the Lord at all times, And to the fearsome, awful One, I cry: Grant redemption, Thou Who dost not slumber, dost not sleep. My soul, all weary and exhausted, Longs and yearns, For it…

All Those Who Love You

I left his house Of my own volition. In order to build him a house Of my own volition. But it seems my father Remained solitary And neglected Not of his own volition. I was moving towards my…

Russia, Russia Fragments

Oh, Father of great mercy In sunset’s flame there fades My cradle land That was once nearer to me than my salt-crusted shirt Where with my brother Russian I shared more than once A measly bite of…
Dome-shaped stone weight with Hebrew inscription.
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Inscribed Weights

Inscribed weights, late 8th or 7th century BCE. These weights, used on a balance scale, correspond, from lightest to heaviest, to (a) payim, (b) netsef, (c) one shekel, and (d) two shekels. (The…