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.
Tel Dan Inscription
[ . . . . . . . . ] and cut (a treaty) [
[ . . . e]l my father went up [against him when] he was fighting in Abe[l?]
And my father lay down, he went to his [ancestors (or: eternal place)]. And the…
Sadie Salome, Go Home!
Cover of sheet music for “Sadie Salome, Go Home.” Fanny Brice (1891–1951), who famously performed in thus number, was born Fania Borach in New York City to immigrants from Hungary and Alsace…
Strange Worlds
In this painting, the elderly proprietor selling newspapers in several languages under the elevated train in Chicago faces away from the hustle and bustle of the street. He and the newspapers are…
Homage to Paris
Mané-Katz was a prominent member of the School of Paris (École de Paris), a group of young artists, many of whom were Jews from Eastern and Central Europe. Mané-Katz painted in a modernist style but…
Among Strangers
The third whistle. Reb Zerakh Lilienthal clutched his beloved family to his heart, kissed them, and boarded the train. He did not have the strength to wish them well yet again. His throat was so tight…
Stories
He strolled along the bank of the Vistula, thinking, “Today she will come.”
And so thinking, he saw it all in the most vivid colors: He is sitting on the bed in his room, in the darkness, waiting…
Wise Virgins
Man is not naturally a gregarious animal, though he has become so under the compulsion of circumstances and civilisation. You can see this in the history of his dwellings. In the beginning…
The Daredevil
She heard a sudden loud squeaking, so she raised her head. Seeing the cart she let out a happy shout: “A troupe!”
Her mother came out from the kitchen and looked through the window. “A fat lot of good…
Untitled (In Praise of Poverty)
If Tarshish would hand out its gold and diamonds
And the deep waters a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst
What does it have to do with me? And why should I ask for it?
While I am alive I will not be…
Letter to My Honored Captain
My red blood is dripping, slowly flowing,
My panting heart slowly calms down in peace,
I lie here peacefully on a narrow stretcher,
And my hazy eyes gaze into the distance.
My red blood is dripping…
Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan
Madame Butterfly [Impassively, her eyes narrowing]:Speak concerning marriage once more, you die! [She fans herself. Suzuki salaams and backs quickly toward the door. Madame Butterfly claps her hands…