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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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Magen ve-tsina (Shield and Bulwark)

The ten halakhic questions raised by a certain individual directed against the Oral Law, and several of the commentaries upon it, have reached us. I have not needed to carry out a great deal of…

Ma'ayan ganim (A Garden Spring)

The words of a pure woman “more precious than rubies” whose wish is to attend to studies, and her name is the gentle Dinah: She seeks counsel from the wise for she fears lest her honor may everywhere…

This wonder, this marvel

This wonder, this marvel, which the deceitful fantasy Basilisk or Asp believes it to be, is an error of understanding: Since if one considers it carefully, the Divine Providence is rewarding your…

Peri tsadik (Fruit of the Righteous)

May the bridegroom rejoice and the roses multiply, let sorrows fade away and let the young, old, and simple-minded understand. May the grooms be joyful with strophic poetry (shirot) and songs (renanot…

Bubba Esther, 1888

She was still upset, she wanted to tell me, she kept remembering his terrible hands: how she came, a young girl of seventeen, a freckled fairskinned Jew from Kovno to Hamburg with her uncle and…

Lecture with Celan

How many know the number of creatures is endless? So many know, only a gasp in their questions is possible. All that fullness— of wounds that won’t scar over. pain’s grillework persisting in…
Terra-cotta figurine of horse with ornament on head.
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Horse with Object on Head

Several horse figurines have objects on the forehead, like this one. The object may represent the horse’s forelock or mane, or perhaps a decorative ornament. This terra-cotta figurine from the City of…