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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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Regulations

Bylaws of the Holy Society for Torah Study of the holy community of Kraków, instituted by our rabbis, the Rema [Moses Isserles], ha-Baḥ [Joel Sirkes], known by the title of his book, Bayit ḥadash [Ne…

The Age of Wonders

Autumn came and Father decided to put an end to the growing hostility surrounding us. We were already isolated, friendless, and bankrupt, deep in the heart of a cold, gray season. I was still going to…

How Do You Do, Dolores?

I have to hide the secrets that I learn from the alley cats. First. That the Creation was far quieter than we assume. Second. The opposite reversal of things. The stripes in the lens. The thoughts…

Vise

Immediately I grabbed the man, gripped him, pressed him to me with all my stomach muscles, the way a carpenter, after applying the metal vise to the cupboard that suddenly collapsed, twists and…

The One Following Us

I’m no longer the man that once was. I am the one I precede, An approximate continuation of the selfsame countenance. I continue walking without him. At times I run in the night, Trying to break my…

Lamentation of the Borderguard

I do not want to be a borderguard, said the borderguard. I don’t want to be a bodyguard. I don’t want to be a guardian angel. I don’t want to be a guide. I want not to be a grinder. I don’t want to…
Photograph of tomb on top of stone structures.
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Tomb of Pharaoh’s Daughter

The cemetery in the village of Silwan, on the hill east of the City of David, included some aboveground tombs, cut out from the cliffs on three or four sides so that they look like buildings. These…