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.
The Reformed Hasid
“Before and After the Reform.” Cartoon from Der schlemiel: Illustriertes jüdisches Blatt für Humor und Satire lampooning the transformation of a Hasidic Jew into a Reformed Jew.
Jewish Woman of Safed Whitewashing Her Home in Preparation for Pessah
Morpurgo was most interested in documenting everyday life. The photographs he took during his 1927 trip to Palestine portray Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities and focus on coexistence rather…
Roaring Lion
This Assyrian-style monument commemorates the death of Josef Trumpeldor, who was killed by Arabs in 1920 at the Jewish settlement of Tel Hai. His heroic death and the idea of “one against many” became…
Ida Rubinstein as a Nurse
Ida Rubinstein, volunteering as a nurse in France during World War I, in a uniform specially designed for her by Leon Bakst. Dancer, actress, and patron of the arts Ida Rubinstein was born into a…
Passion and Love Have No Remedy
The warm, beautiful sun let the beams of its light escape over all of France. One day in the middle of August, when the train coming from Paris to Marseille arrived at a station in the…
The Superwoman
“I am Mother of all the tribe,” she said with dignity. “These”—she indicated the women about her—“are mothers of the clans. You may speak—openly. Why is the birth of a male child cause for…
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force Recruitment Poster
This surprising 1942 Hebrew-language poster from Palestine calls for women to serve in an all-female unit within Britain’s Royal Air Force. This recruitment office was not open on Saturdays!
The Rise of David Levinsky
Sometimes, when I think of my past in a superficial, casual way, the metamorphosis I have gone through strikes me as nothing short of a miracle. I was born and…
Among the Trees
Deep in the woods stands my tent,
No one will discover me,
Late at night and at first dawn,
I hear the revel of the spring
From the deep roots underneath,
To the moss-covered trunks,
From…
The Egg That Disguised Itself
Poet and scholar Dan Pagis wrote and illustrated a children’s book about an egg, which, searching for an alternate identity, tries unsuccessfully to disguise itself as a flower, a mushroom, a clock…
Legend
On the shores of the Sea of Galilee
Lies a palace of great majesty.
There God’s garden is planted,
But not a single tree sways.
Silence; no wave is heard,
Above, every flying bird
Is still and…
Etude
Avigdor Stematsky, a founder of the New Horizons art group, which, beginning in 1942, sought to break away from the artistic conventions established by the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, helped…