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.
Archaic Jewish Wedding Rituals
VII.
The Marshalek.—His Duties.—The Serenade.—At The Bride’s “Main Quarters.”—The Reception at the Groom’s.—The Ritual of Seating of the Bride.—The Marshalek’s Improvisation.
The rituals and…
Mărculeşti Colony Correspondence (on the New Train Station)
Like most of the other colonies established in Bessarabia in the previous century, the colony went through a long sleepy period. Most of the farmers lived simple bucolic lives. In the summer, they…
How Long Does a Pogrom Last?
You have a simplistic picture of a pogrom. A well-off and respected shopkeeper lives a proud and happy life. All at once, angels of destruction pop out of nowhere and within minutes they…
Chart of Gems from A Popular Treatise on Gems
This chart displaying the colors of gems and minerals is from A Popular Treatise on Gems and Minerals by Lewis Feuchtwanger, a German Jewish immigrant to the United States, a doctor who was also well…
To Our Readers (of Magyar Zsidó Szemle)
We are calling upon the Hungarian general public and especially our Jewish coreligionists to support a new undertaking. Our undertaking does not seek to compete with an existing one; rather, it…
The Organization of the Jewish Proletariat in Russia
Anyone arriving from Western Europe by steamship to Mohilev for the first time will be struck on the dock by nothing as much as by the enormous throng of…
The Sociological Significance of ‘The Stranger’
If wandering, considered as the liberation from every given point in space, is the conceptual opposite to being fixed to a given point, then the sociological form of “the stranger” presents the union…
The Voice of the Youth
To Our Brethren and Sisters in the Exile, Peace Be with You!
“If I help not myself, who will help me?”
(Hillel)
Nearly two thousand years have elapsed since, in an evil hour, after an heroic…
Antisemitism as a Group Phenomenon: An Essay in the Sociology of Judaeophobia
I.
It is necessary to remember that hatred is constantly in human society directed and discharged against persons who could not possibly have been guilty of causing it.…
Women Wage Workers: With Reference to Directing Immigrants
This is an age of progress; and, surrounded as we are to-day by every evidence of the astounding advance that the nineteenth century has carried with in its train, I feel that I am flinging down a…
Second Letter from New York to Warsaw
Dear friend Aaron Zeitlin,
You write (in Globus, issue 4) that to fight against the truly leftist—or, as you express it, “against the few who scream ‘impure’ [tomeh] sincerely”—is perhaps futile…
The Jews of Soviet Russia
[ . . . ] [T]here was a lecture in the big union hall on the topic of Soviet food policy. The wife of our protagonist also wanted to go and listen. You didn’t…