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.
Seal Impression of a Male Figure Holding Two Caprids
Images of this type—with a male figure holding two caprids (probably ibexes) by the horns—are dubbed “master of the animals” and are seen throughout the ancient world. They often represent a female…
Altar of Hewn Sandstone (Ashlars) from Beersheba
This altar is approximately 3.5 feet (1.1 m) tall and 5 feet (1.5 m) square. The protrusions at its upper corners are reminiscent of the “horns” of the Tabernacle altar (see “The Tabernacle”)…
Murder
Boy’s house. Boy. Three soldiers. The Boy is wounded all over. Twitches. Finally falls silent.Pale Soldier:He dead or just—?Flushed Soldier:Dead.Pale Soldier:’Cause if he’s not dead—Flushed…
The War against the Jews, 1933-1945
“The Final Solution of the Jewish Question” was the code name assigned by the German bureaucracy to the annihilation of the Jews. The very composition of the code name, when analyzed, reveals its…
Germans, Journals, and Jews/Madison, Men, Marxism and Mosse: A Tale of Jewish-Leftist Identity Confusion in America
[…] the Madison Left experience, at least in the early and mid-1960s, was never simply an American experience. It was more jumbled, at least more composite—like America itself? In my own not untypical…
Our Homeland, the Text
Successive, often polemic interpretations, citations in a context of sacred doctrine or of political-historical opportunity, construe, around the archaic, cardinal words in the Hebrew canon, a…
Radical Jewish Culture
These program notes were prepared for the Radical New Jewish music performances which were part of the ART PROJEKT Festival held in Munich in September of 1992.American New Music has always been noted…
The Raid
He was late.
Under normal circumstances, she would have considered it a minor annoyance, a matter of a dinner grown cold, or a delay in helping the children with their homework, or an errand that…
An Ideal Vision for the Future
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness,
And ministers shall govern with justice;
Every one of them shall be
Like a refuge from gales,
A shelter from rainstorms;
Like brooks of water in a…