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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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Moscow Night, End of December 1934

It’s hard to be clever these nights, And useless to be modern. Useless to smile knowingly and observe with melancholy The language bastardisms of history: “The government of the Republic is delivered…

Summer 1937

For my child, today, it is so easy to make the awful discovery, that people kill and are killed: both things and people speak the language of the red angel. My child asks me: Why are people being…

Attempt to Explain a Mellah

September 7, 1912. The French enter Marrakesh. Marching through the Djema el Fna Square, surrounded by his general staff, Colonel Mangin is surprised to hear, amid the discordant noises of the crowd…

Parting Words

We know that a writer has no power except in the pen. Nevertheless there are times when it behooves us to alter the ordinary manner of expression. There are times when the author, too, must depart…

Insult

Jew, you’ve yelled at him, seething with rage. Jew, you’ve yelled at him, seeking to shame him. Jew, no better word can you find to defame him. Jew, no better word to vent your disdain. For him it…

Thoughts on the Third Destruction

I leaf through the commemorative albums of the settlements of Ri’shon Le-tsion, Reḥovot, Petaḥ-Tikvah, and Ḥadera. Among other things I was looking for documentary material on the establishment of the…

Family Sayings

After the war the world seemed vast, unknowable and boundless. However, my mother went back to living in the world as best she could, happily, for she had a happy nature. Her spirit could never grow…

The Teaching of Torah to Women

Gentlemen! This Shabbat, with God’s help, I decided to continue in the interpretation of the article by the blessed teacher Rabbi Meir, may his merit protect us, amen, who said that “whoever is…

Brandeis University: The Pledge

[ . . . ] I look upon this humble beginning as a potentially significant step. It is the first nonsectarian university which becomes the corporate responsibility of the Jewish community in America…

America Must Not Remain Silent

I speak to you as an American Jew. As Americans we share the profound concern of millions of people about the shame and disgrace of inequality and injustice which make a mockery of the great American…

Rites and Ceremonies

Father, adonoi, author of all things of the three states, the soft light on the barn at dawn, a wind that sings in the bracken, fire in iron gates, the ram’s horn, Furnisher, hinger of…