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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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Jewish Ethnopoetics

Dedicated to my sister and friend Sarah Rappoport A people’s poetry depicts, vividly and in clear relief, the hidden inner world of national life, to which we are admitted neither by the pen of the…

How Does One Produce Culture?

When the [Yiddish language] culture conference gathered in Czernowitz [in September, 1908], I was against it. When the culture conference gathered in Berlin, I voiced my doubts about it. Now that a…

Responsum: On Gender Transition

Question: Is a proper get [divorce certificate] necessary in the following circumstance: a certain man married a young Jewish woman, and was with her in the manner of men and women, but after some…

Jewboy

He sings in the courtyard, clad in rags A small, poor chap, a crazed Jew. People drive him away, God has muddled his wits Ages and exile have confused his tongue He wails and he dances, weeps and…

An Encounter

For two minutes we gazed at each other In curious silence. When politeness nudged me in the shoulder, I introduced myself: A man, the crown of creation. The grasshopper Was not overwhelmed. He kept…

Notes to an Old–New Debate

Many people believe that the question of “the mingling of the diasporas” will be resolved in the workplace, in the mixed neighborhood, in school, etc. oriental [Mizrahi] Jews, they say, who acquire…

The Sun and I

We wore each other out today the sun and I working in the vineyard. The sun dropped behind the mountain exhausted, red, and burning hot I was left alone. We were both a little overheated today, the…