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.
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)…
Announcement for Bar Giora Performance
Flyer for Bar Giora, an adaptation of Friedrich Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell by David Yellin, organized by drama class participants from the Moriah School. Students performed the play several times during…
Façades for the International Commission
In the Terezin concentration camp, before a visit by the International Red Cross and the Danish Red Cross in 1944, the Nazis created an elaborate ruse, designed to convince the delegation that the…
For the Fallen: Triptych
Mordechai Ardon believed that an artwork should be encountered on its own terms: its colors and composition and the relationship between them. He avoided overtly political or social themes, though his…
Social Housing Blocks in Upper Nazareth
For many years, Amiram Erev worked as a photographer for Solel Boneh, the large Israeli construction company founded by the Histadrut, Israel’s General Federation of Labor. The company played a key…
Fig Tree in Studio Window
Yehezkel Streichman painted Fig Tree in Studio Window during a time when he was becoming more and more of an abstract painter, developing a signature style involving the use of multiple layers of…
Humphreys and Mendoza: Their Third Public Contest for Superiority, on Sept. 29, 1790
Born in Aldgate, London, bare-knuckled pugilist Daniel Mendoza was the first Jew in England to become heavyweight champion, a title that he defended twice before losing it to John Jackson on a ninth…
Shabbetai Tzvi: Sabbatianism
During the first half of the seventeenth century some extravagant notions of the near approach of the Messianic time, and more especially of the redemption of the Jews and their return to Jerusalem…
Antisemitism and the Social Crisis
To speak with competence about anti-Semitism, some studies would be necessary, which I have not done. I can therefore only give you my impression.
First of all, there would be grounds, I believe, to…
Doktor Veitsman
The people were hardworking, sprightly, and seasoned. They sailed all the way to Danzig and Memel and back, and knew the worth of merchandise as well as of people. The Jewish population made a living…
The Jewish Question in Hungary
Social and judicial reforms will not solve the universal Jewish question, nor will they bring an answer to the Hungarian Jewish question; they can only solve internal technical issues, which, as we…
The Religion of Israel: From Its Beginnings to the Babylonian Exile
If one examines the biblical account of the origins of Israelite monotheism and the story of its battle with and eventual triumph over paganism, he will discover a…