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.

Page with drawing of three uniformed men holding bayonets and German headings above and below.

Marsch der Israelitischen national Garde in Warschau

This illustration depicts three Polish Jewish soldiers taking part in the Polish uprising of 1830 and 1831. The rendering of an “Israelite National Guard in Warsaw” alongside solemn, patriotic music…

Statement upon the Publication of Denkschrift an die hochgeehrte Wiener israelitische Cultus (Memorandum to the Esteemed Viennese Israelite Religious Community)

In the first place, it behoves us to fight the opinion that the regeneration of the service can be achieved only by a complete break with the past, by abolishing all traditional and inherited…

Medal of man with open book.

Medal Honoring Eleazar ben Samuel’s Appointment as Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi in Amsterdam

In 1735, Eleazar ben Samuel arrived in Amsterdam to take up the post of chief rabbi of the Ashkenazic community. To mark the occasion, Joel ben Lippman Levi minted a medal. On the front of the medal…

Photograph of building exterior with curved windows and gated courtyard to left.

Kupa Synagogue (Kraków)

The ceiling and wall paintings in the baroque-style Kupa Synagogue in Kraków, which dates from 1643, were damaged during World War II and in a pogrom that occurred in August 1945 immediately following…

Print engraving of woman in veil flanked by two other women, standing before a stone building.

Jewish Bride in Fürth

This print depicting a veiled Jewish bride assisted by two other women is from the beginning of the eighteenth century, a period of prosperity for the city’s Jewish community. There were between 350…

Photograph of oval room with central platform with columns.

Scuola Grande Tedesca (Venice)

The Scuola Grande Tedesca is the oldest of five synagogues in the Venetian ghetto and was built in 1528 by the local Ashkenazic community. Although only its five windows are visible from the street…

Photograph of room with raised platform with railings in center and carved wooden Torah chamber on back wall.

Chendamangalam Synagogue (Cochin, India)

Built in the early fifteenth century and rebuilt in 1614 following a fire, the Chendamangalam Synagogue served members of the Malabari Jewish community, descendants of Cochin’s earliest Jews, who are…

Abstract painting featuring two panels with thick blocks of color and triangular section with Hebrew text on bottom left corners.

All-Merciful God

Gershuni was a significant figure in the Israeli art scene, and over the course of his career, his art underwent dramatic changes in style and themes. His life work is evidence of his assertion from…

Illustration with English and Hebrew words and undulating line across the middle.

Untitled (Horowitz Margareten Matzohs)

This painting of a box of Horowitz Margareten matzah, a popular U.S. brand, is a clear reference to the images of Campbell soup cans and other consumer products that Andy Warhol made in the 1960s…

Stylized drawing featuring stick figures, train cars, and wagons.

A Sad Story

Although Bergner did not personally experience the Holocaust, it was a recurring theme in his art. Here, in a painting in the style of a child’s drawing, a child wearing a hat, typical of others seen…

Chronicle

In the year 5289 (1528/29), the holy martyrs of Pösing, 36 souls—men and women, youths and young girls—were arrested because of a false accusation made by a mamzer, and they died for the…

Ḥayye Yehudah (The Life of Judah)

At the beginning of the month of Tammuz 5349 [began June 15, 1589], in order not to remain idle, I began to give lessons in Torah to the son of Manasseh Levi of blessed memory and to Joseph the son of…