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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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True and False Piety

Cry with full throat, without restraint; Raise your voice like a ram’s horn! Declare to My people their transgression, To the House of Jacob their sin. To be sure, they seek Me daily, Eager to…

Leaving the Fold: Intermarriage

The Torah views the defection of one single Jewish soul from Judaism as the ultimate tragedy, for is not “one solitary Jewish life an entire world”? And an intermarriage is nothing…

Israel Ignores God’s Wishes

Israel rejects what is good; An enemy shall pursue him. They have made kings, But not with My sanction; They have made officers, But not of My choice. Of their silver and gold They have made…

A Complaint to God and Babylon

The pronouncement made by the prophet Habakkuk. How long, O Lord, shall I cry out And You not listen, Shall I shout to You, “Violence!” And You not save? Why do You make me see iniquity [Why] do…

Psalm 23

A psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me to water in places of repose; He renews my life; He guides me in right paths as…

Psalm 132

A song of ascents. O Lord, remember in David’s favor his extreme self-denial, how he swore to the Lord, vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob, “I will not enter my house, nor will I mount my bed, I…
Sculpture of a figure in robe and hat, carrying a book.
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Jewish Scholar

Katherine M. Cohen created a number of sculptures that explored Jewish themes, including Jewish Scholar. She also sculpted, on commission, portrait busts of prominent Philadelphia Jews, such as Judge…
Bronze sculpture of seated figure with beard and Star of David etched onto its side.
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The Sleeping Messiah

Glicenstein depicted the Jewish Messiah as a semi-nude figure in the classical style, with bowed head and tethered to his seat. It received early recognition, admired by Rodin and praised in the…
Photograph of five young boys standing and sitting in various poses on crumbling foundation of a wall with swastika drawn on it. One boy points a flat wooden stick at another boy, who is giving a metal object to a seated boy.
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Yorkville Swastika

The Photo League was notable for the large number of women who participated in it; about one-third of its members were women. Vivian Cherry’s work was influential in shaping the style and iconography…

The Ages of Man

Let but the son of earth           Remember from his birth   That in the end   He shall return:   As at his birth he was,   So shall he be.“Arise and prosper,” say ye unto himOf five years, whose…