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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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The Futility of All Activity

The words of Kohelethson of David, king in Jerusalem. Utter futility!—said Koheleth— Utter futility! All is futile! What real value is there for a man In all the gainshe makes beneath the sun?…
Sculpture of abstract figure standing and holding a guitar.
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Sailor with Guitar

Sailor with Guitar is one of Jacques Lipchitz’s early cubist sculptures, an experiment in translating painterly cubist concepts into three dimensions. The figure of the sailor was inspired by sailors…
Sandstone sculpture of the upper torso of a naked man with animal features and a bow along his backbone.
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Nimrod

Nimrod provoked controversy when it was first presented to the public. The biblical Nimrod was a hunter, but he was also associated with rebellion, especially in talmudic literature, and he appears…

Auger Shaped

I want to be a Pole. You have my word! I want to reach the peak of Polishness But I can find no way to manage: They always shout: “You’re a jew!” When I defend the jews from slander, Hoping to…

Serenade

And if the night In its blue cloak Abandons wood and vale, And softly cries With tears of dew And crystal shards, Then tear my heart Out of my breast And wash it in the dew— And with your lips Suck…

The Treasure

Yakhne-Brayne [Reading slowly and with difficulty so that the words run together in a monotone.]:“And God caused the Temple to be destroyed and said, ‘I will remember your sins and you will devour…
Sculpture of stylized menorah wrapped in barbed wire.
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The Liberation of Jerusalem

The Liberation of Jerusalem, created shortly after the Six Day War, was a bold statement by its artist Solomon (Shlomo) Dreizner, at a time when any expression of support for Israel by Soviet Jews…

On the Renaissance

We are speaking of the Jewish Renaissance. By this we understand the peculiar and basically inexplicable phenomenon of the progressive rejuvenation of the Jewish people in language, customs, and art…

Zionism

The Dreyfus trial transformed me into a Zionist. Not the current one in Rennes, but the original one in Paris that I witnessed in 1894. I was living in Paris then as a journalist and attended the…

Sermon: On Zionism

 Upon a lofty mountain ascent, O herald of Zion, raise your voice with strength, O herald of Jerusalem, raise your voice, fear not; say to the cities of Judah: “Behold your God” (Isaiah 40: 9).Friends…