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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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Acher

  It was like this in the garden:   Ben Azzai looked and died,   Ben Zoma looked and went mad;   Akiba and I went forth in peace, but they said I cut down the young plants.   I said that one is two…

The Sisters Rosensweig

Merv:Sara, can I have my shirt? I’ve got a lunch date with the rabbi of Dublin.Sara:Mervyn, you came all the way to Queen Anne’s Gate. Please sit a minute.Tess:Sit down, Merv. I’ll get your shirt. Win…

Evening in Basel

You won’t find the restaurant in the guidebooks, which is a pity. The owner—he was tall and wearing a sport jacket—greeted us at the door. Our table was waiting in the corner. “And the food is quite…
Line drawing of two figures holding utensils in bowls.
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Your Land, Your Country

What, actually, am I doing here? I owe myself, and perhaps others, an answer to this question. What, actually, am I doing here? Why do I go on a clear morning to Levinsky, why in zigzags, stopping…

1949, the First Israelis

Itzhak Refael once warned his colleagues on the Jewish Agency Executive that if they insisted on “regulating” the immigration quotas only the immigration from North Africa would remain for it could…

Egypt’s Defeat and Conversion

The “Egypt” Pronouncement. Mounted on a swift cloud, The Lord will come to Egypt; Egypt’s idols shall tremble before Him, And the heart of the Egyptians shall sink within them. “I will incite…