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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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Like a Rolling Stone

Once upon a time you dressed so fine You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you? People’d call, say, “Beware doll, you’re bound to fall” You thought they were all kiddin’ you You used to…

Sheltered by a Crimson Awning . . .

Sheltered by a crimson awning, All alone, his slaves dismissed, A lord is bidding farewell fondly To a black-browed odalisque. “Sarah, houri of the prophet, My sunshine, comfort, strength, delight…
Assemblage of feathers, photographs, and figurines of humans and animals in a hat shape.
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Feast in Paradise, No. 2

In the early 1980s, Eshel-Gershuni began making what she called “fetishes” or “impossible jewelry,” transferring her skills as a jewelry-maker to sculpture. She combined expensive materials like gold…
Ceramic menorah with eight copper branches and torso sculpture for center candle.
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Hanukkah Lamp. Unorthodox Menorah II

Otterson was first inspired to explore the multiple symbolic meanings of the menorah after a trip to Israel in the early 1990s. He made the branches of his reimagined Hanukkah menorah out of copper…

Protector of Women

Please listen to my words, Wise, honest, and beautiful women For my riddle is complete: Against your faithful crew [of women] Old men Raise your shame to the stars While I protect you, Defend you…

The Plea

O living and terrible God, replace my prison, this round pit, by a full moon and a goblet. Pray, turn the darkness of my hell into a shining light, and this dwelling-place of dusk into an orchard, a…

On the Shore, Tel Aviv, Winter 1974

A crocodile cloud swallowed a cloud-cloud. All is clogged and where did the war go? The pier is painted red and yellow with the inscription: Tel Aviv. The drums of the depths are indifferent. In the…

Gaudeamus

[…] In my confusion I didn’t know how to answer my detractors, those who brand me a poseur because I pronounce the c in the Castilian manner or I say fellow instead of guy (I love) miscegenations (pe…