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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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Her Hair

O peerless beauty, veil your hair, lest you play havoc with the world, without lifting a finger! They are famous throughout the world, they ring in the ears of all who hear of them. The weakest…

To His Gadabout Wife

Only three exits are becoming to every woman, big or small. The first is when she exits from the womb, dirtied, as if from a deep swamp. The second is when she exits from her woman’s tent and enters…

All Those Who Love You

I left his house Of my own volition. In order to build him a house Of my own volition. But it seems my father Remained solitary And neglected Not of his own volition. I was moving towards my…

The Dancing

In all these rotten shops, in all this broken furniture and wrinkled ties and baseball trophies and coffee pots I have never seen a post-war Philco with the automatic eye nor heard Ravel’s “Bolero”…

Russia, Russia Fragments

Oh, Father of great mercy In sunset’s flame there fades My cradle land That was once nearer to me than my salt-crusted shirt Where with my brother Russian I shared more than once A measly bite of…

Bewildering Clarity of Tongues

for Aaron Lebedeff (1873–1960), performer on the Yiddish stage Bewildering clarity of tongues: names you never heard, food you never ate, a wild dance you never learned, light hanging in the sky…

Sight Unseen

Jonathan:I know you do. It cracks me up that you do; it amuses me. You know, up till like eight or nine years ago, let’s not forget, I was painting apartments for a living. Apartments. Walls. Rooms. I…
Ceramic figure playing a double pipe.
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Double-pipe Player

On this ceramic double pipe from Tel Malhata, the musician uses one hand on each pipe to control pitch. Usually women played the double pipe, but in this case, it is a man. This double pipe is…

The Sunset of the Titans

The spring of 1998 was kind to the Jezreel Valley. The rain, which was heavy and late, colored the slopes of the Gilboa with bright green and spread carpets of wildflowers on them—red, purple, and…