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.
Shaft Graves, Qumran
Shaft Grave Schematic. Drawing by Bill Nelson, adapted with permission from the Biblical Archaeology Society.
In Winter Evenings
This melancholy Yiddish poem became a song of longing for home sung by Soviet Jewish soldiers during World War II.
Train-Shaped Besamim Box
This creative nineteenth-century spice box for Havdallah, the ceremony marking the end of the Sabbath, was made by the prolific silversmith Emanuel Eisler.
Uzziah’s Reinterment Inscription
This inscription reads, “Hither were brought the bones of Uzziah King of Judah. Do not open!"
Paradesi Synagogue (Cochin, India)
Built in 1568, the Paradesi Synagogue is the oldest in India, and in the entire British Commonwealth.
Joseph
Now Jacob was settled in the land where his father had sojourned, the land of Canaan. This, then, is the line of Jacob:
At seventeen years of age, Joseph tended…
The Division of the Kingdom
Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to acclaim him as king. Jeroboam son of Nebat learned of it while he was still in Egypt; for Jeroboam had fled from King Solomon, and had…
Artaxerxes Authorizes Ezra to Lead Another Group to Jerusalem
After these events, during the reign of King Artaxerxes of Persia, Ezra son of Seraiah son of Azariah son of Hilkiah son of Shallum son of Zadok son of Ahitub son of Amariah son of Azariah son of…