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.
L'Image de la femme (The Image of Woman)
When Claude Cahun took this self-portrait photograph, she was still Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob and had not yet adopted her new gender-neutral name. She is wearing a pinafore, sitting quietly at a desk…
The Arrangement of the Israelite Camp
The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: The Israelites shall camp each with his standard, under the banners of their ancestral house; they shall camp around the Tent of Meeting at a distance.
Ca…
Devil Sucking the Blood of a Sweatshop Tailor
Illustration from the German translation of Morris Rosenfeld’s Yiddish “sweatshop” poems, Lieder des Ghetto (Songs from the Ghetto). The illustrations in the deluxe book are in the art nouveau style…
The Reformed Hasid
“Before and After the Reform.” Cartoon from the Yiddish satiric publication Der Schlemiel: Illustriertes jüdisches Blatt für Humor und Satire, lampooning the transformation of a Hasidic Jew into a…
Jewish Woman of Safed Whitewashing Her Home in Preparation for Pessah
Morpurgo was most interested in documenting everyday life. The photographs he took during his 1927 trip to Palestine portray Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities and focus on coexistence rather…
Ida Rubinstein as a Nurse
Famed dancer, actress, and patron of the arts Ida Rubinstein volunteered as a nurse in France during World War I, in a uniform specially designed for her by Léon Bakst. Rubinstein was born into a…
Among the Trees
Deep in the woods stands my tent,
No one will discover me,
Late at night and at first dawn,
I hear the revel of the spring
From the deep roots underneath,
To the moss-covered trunks,
From…
Etude
Avigdor Stematsky, a founder of the New Horizons art group, which, beginning in 1942, sought to break away from the artistic conventions established by the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, helped…
Diary Entry: On Having Children
No, we will not have children. Sometimes, with the passing of generations, a generation arises that takes for itself all the wellsprings of life that eternity prepared for an eternity without leaving…
On the History of the Jews
The French Revolution wherever it penetrates, and in France above all, opens to Judaism a new era, in a double sense, material and moral.
On one hand, by breaking down the barrier between the Jew and…