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.
Keep the Covenant between God and Israel
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord:
“Hear the terms of this covenant, and recite them to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem! And say to them, Thus said the Lord, the God…
At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew’s Search for Hope with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land
In early winter 1998, I set out to discover my country, the Holy Land. My pilgrimage was an attempt at religious empathy: I was hoping to encounter, as an Israeli Jew, my Christian and Muslim…
Songs in Numbers 21
Then Israel sang this song:
Spring up, O well—sing to it—
The well which the chieftains dug,
Which the nobles of the people started
With maces, with their own staffs.
Solomon’s Temple-dedication Prayer
Then, with the whole congregation of Israel standing, the king faced about and blessed the whole congregation of Israel. He said: “Praised be the Lord, the God of Israel, who has fulfilled with…
Book Seller and Notre Dame on the Quai de la Seine
Léon Gimpel made improvements to the technology of the autochrome that shortened the exposure time needed for a color photograph to be taken. His color photographs are rare documents of everyday life…
The Bullier Ball (Tango au Bal Bullier)
This eleven-foot-wide painting is of the Bal Bullier dance hall in Paris. It is painted in the style of simultanisme, a type of painting developed by Sonia Delaunay and her husband Robert Delaunay in…
The Itinerary in the Wilderness
These were the marches of the Israelites who started out from the land of Egypt, troop by troop, in the charge of Moses and Aaron. Moses recorded the starting points of their various marches as…
Three Things . . . Four Things
The earth shudders at three things,
At four which it cannot bear:
A slave who becomes king;
A scoundrel sated with food;
A loathsome woman who gets married;
A slave-girl who supplants her…
Fiscal Bulla from Jerusalem
In the seventh (year). Bethlehem. For the King.
Translated by Ronny Reich.
Man with Torah
Frenkel, whose work was shaped by the School of Paris (École de Paris), played a key role in bringing modernism to Israeli art. Among his students were prominent members of what is known as the Land…
Billboards for Municipal Elections, Tel Aviv
The Hebrew sign in this photograph, from the 1927 municipal election in Tel Aviv in 1927, urges: “Vote gimel” (the Hebrew letter on the ballot representing a particular party or slate of candidates)…