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.
Seder ha-mishnah (Order of the Mishnah)
Regarding the other matters, the congregation, may God preserve it, in every single community, according to its size and wealth, will contribute toward the construction of permanent houses of study…
Shoshanat ha-‘amakim (Lily of the Valleys): On the Song of Songs
I maintain that this megilah [scroll] is nothing other than a disputation of the people of the diaspora, those exiled in the bitter and impetuous [see Habakkuk 1:6] captivity of this host [see Obadiah…
Ceramic Chalice from Arad
The chalice, covered with red slip (a thin mixture of red clay and water), consists of a tall, hollow stand and a separate bowl; both parts are decorated with downturned petals. Together they stand…
Hezekiah (Chronicles)
Hezekiah became king at the age of twenty-five, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; his mother’s name was Abijah daughter of Zechariah…
Myths in Israeli Culture: Captives of a Dream
The new hybrid rightist-Jewish narrative spread into mainstream Israeli society especially strongly after the Six Day War (1967), when the right began to make deep inroads in both political and public…
The Song of Deborah
On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang:
When locks go untrimmedin Israel,
When people dedicate themselves—
Bless the Lord!
Hear, O kings! Give ear, O potentates!
I will sing, will…
The Hebrew Ornament
Cover of L’Ornement Hebreu (The Hebrew Ornament). This major work on Jewish art reproduced ornaments from medieval Hebrew illuminated manuscripts in the imperial library in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The People’s Penitential Prayer after Hearing the Teaching
On the twenty-fourth day of this month, the Israelites assembled, fasting, in sackcloth, and with earth upon them. Those of the stock of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood…
Don’t Join a Gang
My son, heed the discipline of your father,
And do not forsake the instruction of your mother;
For they are a graceful wreath upon your head,
A necklace about your throat.
My son, if sinners…
God’s Attributes
The Lord came down in a cloud; He stood with him there, and proclaimed the name Lord. The Lord passed before him and proclaimed: “The Lord! the Lord!a God compassionate and gracious, slow to…
The Way to a Man’s Heart ("The Settlement" Cook Book)
The Settlement Cook Book, first published in 1901 as a pamphlet, soon became a mainstay of American domestic culture and was published in more than forty editions before its final publication in 1991…
Pastoral (Ein Karem Landscape)
Israel Paldi was a member of the Land of Israel movement, a group of post-impressionist artists who, in the 1920s, broke with the conventions of the Bezalel School. Some, like Paldi, became well-known…