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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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Terra-cotta chair with four short legs.
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Model Chair

Since chairs and beds were valuable items and not found in average homes (people usually sat on the floor and slept on mats), it is possible that terra-cotta models like this one from Lachish…

To Be a Jew in France in 1982

Confronted by difficult problems after 1945 (reconstruction of a community life after the physical and material losses of the Second World War, integration of successive and ever more numerous waves…

The Yellow Wind

I belong to the generation that celebrated its bar mitzvah during the Six-Day War. Then, in 1967, the surging energy of our adolescent hormones was coupled with the intoxication gripping the entire…

Against Social Injustice

Ha! Those who write out evil writs And compose iniquitous documents, To subvert the cause of the poor, To rob of their rights the needy of My people; That widows may be their spoil, And fatherless…

In Good Faith

“Eretz Israel.” There is not one. We already grew up on one sublime Eretz Israel which is almost the be-all-and-end-all of everything. The place of the Jewish people. Its homeland, its right, its…

God’s Lawsuit against Israel

Hear the word of the Lord, O people of Israel! For the Lord has a case Against the inhabitants of this land, Because there is no honesty and no goodness And no obedience to God in the land. [False]…
Drawing of relief of men in chariot trampling other figures.
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Pronouncements against Nineveh

A pronouncement on Nineveh: The Book of the Prophecy of Nahum the Elkoshite. The Lord is a passionate, avenging God; The Lord is vengeful and fierce in wrath. The Lord takes vengeance…