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.
Big Nature I
Abramson’s work from the 1980s focused on combining iconic abstract symbols of modernist art with figurative elements. Here what looks like a column composed of a stack of disks has a stripe overlaid…
It’s Me
Illustrations from Yehuda Atlas’s children’s book, It’s Me, about a young boy facing his problems.
Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
It is April 1959, I’m standing at the railing of the Batory’s upper deck, and I feel that my life is ending. I’m looking out at the crowd that has gathered on the shore to see the ship’s departure…
Stone Flower Fountain, Moscow
Mark Markov-Grinberg took this atmospheric nighttime photograph after he lost his job at the Russian news agency TASS, during the Soviet campaign against Jews. He and other former Jewish…
Immigrants aboard the Parita Ship
Walter Zadek took this picture of exhausted refugees on the deck of the SS Parita in late August 1939 after the ship was run onto the beach at Tel Aviv by its crew. Aboard the ship were about 850 Jews…
For Two Thousand Years
The university was closed the day before yesterday, 9 December, in anticipation of the 10th. Quiet days, however: the occasional scuffle and an unremarkable street demonstration.In any case, things…