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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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Abischag

King David was old, advanced in years. Though covered in bedclothes, he could not get warm. They searched the land of Israel for a beautiful young woman and found Abischag the Shunammite, who was…

To the Common Man

When they begin to plaster the walls With freshly printed proclamations, When black print sounds alarm Calling “To the People” and “To Soldiers” And ruffians and adolescents Are taken in by their…

Zangwill

Someone gathered rich apples, rich corn, Grown of your heart and your brain, And in me, as a loft, has stored Some of the fruit and grain. The loft smells sweet with its store: The corn for making…

Salute

There are things in this country too— And if they find no streetlamp pole, There will be a tree—and that means clearly That a Negro over twenty years old May hate all things which spire To hold a man…

Self-Hatred among Jews

That self-hatred is present among Jews is a fact that the non-Jew would hardly believe, but which is well known among the Jews themselves. It is a phenomenon which has been observed ever since the…

The Situation of the Jewish Writer

All discussions pertaining to the Jews must begin with some very gloomy observations. The Jews are, everywhere, a minority group, and it is a particular misfortune these days to be a minority group in…

Hagar

Hanging her corals on the night she leaves silent, possessing nothing. A moon dives, a splash extinguished in a wall of water. Alone, just herself, the path blown clean with white godhead twists…

I Have Never Been Here Before

I always thought I had been here before. Each year of my patched-up life I mended the fabrics of my decrepit, tattered world. In memory I recognized faces and smiles, even my father and mother…

The Love of Teresa de Meun

I do not want to see you in my dreams each night. I do not want to tremble when I hear a footstep at my door. I do not want to think of you each hour of every day. I do not want to see in the…