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.
Jewish Family
Mark Gertler’s Jewish Family is not meant to be a portrait of a specific Jewish family but is instead an archetype painted in a style that evokes folk art and early Italian painting. The model for the…
A "Taube" Is Spotted; A French 75 Is Immediately Put into Battery While "Pépéte," the Aviator, Prepares to Give Chase
In 1915, photographer Léon Gimpel began spending time with a group of children he had encountered in the Rue de Grenata neighborhood in Paris. It was during World War I, and the boys’ favorite…
The Conquered Kings of Canaan
And the following are the local kings whom Joshua and the Israelites defeated on the west side of the Jordan—from Baal-gad in the Valley of the Lebanon to Mount Halak, which ascends to Seir—which…
Yehud Seal Impressions
Seal impression on jar handle: Yehud.
Seal impression on jar handle: Yehud, the Governor.
Seal impression on jar handle: Yehud, Yehoezer, the Governor.
Seal impression on jar handle: (Belonging) to…
Jewish Tailor’s Workshop
This engraving depicting a tailor’s workshop was printed along with others portraying Jewish immigrant life in London, England, in the Illustrated London News in 1891.
Self-Portrait on Tel Aviv Beach
Korbman sometimes included himself in his photographs documenting life in Tel Aviv. Here, he sits on the beach smoking a hookah. There was often a quirky edge to his photographs. He belonged to the…
Landscape
Krakauer’s work, mostly chalk and charcoal drawings on paper, was largely devoted to expressionist landscapes of Jerusalem and its environs. His unique style was characterized by short strokes, often…
The Dance before the Ark
The fire of joy in solitude. . . And since in vain I have made this journey,The ground giving way to my burning steps,Let me embrace this ardorIn abstract revelry* * *
The National and University Library
Architects Ziva Armoni and Hanan Hebron were commissioned to design the National and University Library in Jerusalem. The library is charged with collecting and preserving materials connected to…
The Arrest of the Deserter
The Arrest of the Deserter depicts a scene from an 1844 comedy, Dominique the Deserter, set in the seventeenth century. Rebecca Solomon painted domestic scenes and scenes of modern Victorian life, but…
Powers of Descent and Powers of Ascent
[ . . . ] Why does the present Jewish fate appear so strongly connected to our entire past and to all that is currently unfolding before our eyes? At times it seemed that many distinct events stood…