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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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The Portrait of Susannah

Although a beautiful shock of golden hair swings across her forehead And love finds nourishment in her eyes The chaste Susannah never strays from the right path And harbors not one thought without…

The Ass’s Complaint

Why is my back loaded with fine flour, while in my mouth there is no bread at all, but only straw? I drink well-water, though I carry wine. And the stick goes on fracturing my skull! I live in rubble…

The Story of Amīnā and His Wife

Listen, my friends, pay attention! Be silent, do not restrain me, Nor say, “That fellow Amīānā’s been unfaithful, His heart and tongue in two directions pull; If not, why did he leave his native…

Europe

I have always backed off from the word. In the Thirties Europe meant French. But was it only then? Not in earlier centuries? A bloody lesson learned that Europe was Balmazújváros as well as Notre…

In a Nutshell

Credo in a kind of American jewish Hamlet-like bagel, too round for action yet leavened enough by contact with the near-dead past—you call it landscape, I call it history—to provide a layered vantage…
Stone cylinder resembling beetle.
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Scarab-shaped Seal

Scarab-shaped seal, Achziv, Iron Age IIC (732/701–586 BCE). Seals were used as stamps to impress images and/or words onto clay objects. They were often perforated so they could be suspended from cords…