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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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Where will you camp, O my ibex?

Where will you camp, O my ibex, for whom I yearn? Where will you drip the droplets of your wine and your dew—O formidable one? If you bring up your beauty to heaven on high, You will dim…

I Too Want to Marry a Housewife

I too wish to marry a desperate housewife Blur my way into her house with the evening light The aromas of salad and an omelet cooking To live in the shade of her becoming To have her raise me like…

Chabibi

Chabibi my vaybl be on your guard when you meet a goy he likes you nisht be on your guard when you meet a goy he likes you be on your guard when you meet a yid he smells you chassids…
Figurine with horned helmet and raised hand, with gilded bronze on hand and thigh.
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Figurine of Male Deity

Figurine of Male Deity, Ugarit, Late Bronze Age, 1550 to 1200 BCE. Seven and a half inches tall (19 cm), this figurine probably once brandished a weapon in its raised hand. It is identifiable as a…

A Night at the Mall

On the revolving stage, a shop called Burgermatch, with a sign that reads: “Buy 10 hamburgers, get a free tennis racket.” Next to it, a sports goods store, Our Sports, with a sign saying “Buy a…

To Mend the World

What is a Jew? Who is a Jew? After this catastrophe, what is a Jew’s relation to the Jewish past? We resume our original question as we turn from one rupture in post-Holocaust Jewish existence—of the…

Voices of the Matriarchs

What does it mean to study women’s religion? How are we to define our subject matter? How are we to understand the relationship of the history of women’s religious life and practice to the history of…

About Jerusalem and Its Leaders

Thus said my Lord God of Hosts: Go in to see that steward, that Shebna, in charge of the palace: What have you here, and whom have you here, That you have hewn out a tomb for yourself here?— O…