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.
Cover Illustrations for Peretz's Dramen
The three art nouveau-influenced covers by Ber Kratko for three of Y. L. Peretz’s plays feature somewhat grotesque figures. The one for Vos in fidele shtekt (What Sticks in the Fiddle) features a…
Temerl
Page from Moyshe Broderzon’s Temerl, illustrated by Joseph Chaikov, and published in Moscow shortly before the Russian Revolution. Chaikov illustrated this children’s book in a neo-Romantic style. A…
Magen Avraham (Shield of Abraham)
When a borrower is asked to pay usury or interest, they frequently use this…
And This Is How You Shall Eat It (Exodus 12:11)
Ad for the Wissotzky Tea Company, founded in Moscow in 1849 by Kalman (Kalonymus) Ze’ev Wissotzky, a tea trader who changed his name to Wulf Yankelevich Wissotzky. In the early 1890s, the company…
