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Welcome to the New Posen Library

Here you’ll find texts and images spanning more than 3,000 years of Jewish history and culture. Our free site aims to ensure that thought leaders and scholars of Jewish history can represent Jewish life holistically and with a multiplicity of voices.
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Our Curated Collections

On this site you can explore our curated collections, which demonstrate how our text and image sources can be used to illuminate, inspire, and engage, providing unique opportunities to create conversations about Jewish history and culture across time and geography. Register for free access to the sources in these collections.

Painting of men cutting cloth and women sewing.

Gender Roles
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Engage with the gendered dimensions of Jewish life and discover lost voices of Jewish women. 

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Featured Sources

Text and image sources now available on the site cover all published volumes—including the biblical (through 332 BCE) and early modern to contemporary periods (1500–2005).

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Amazone (bronze)

The woman depicted in Amazone is believed to be Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972), an American writer, lesbian, and feminist who hosted a literary salon in Paris. She was one of several women whom…
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Summer

Today, the world was unfurled once more and renewed. The teeming earth, the whispering green, the swelling bud. Everything shook, as the tense body of a virgin Becoming a joyful wife might be shaken…
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Manuscript page with drawing of building complex with inner courtyards.
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Synagogue in K’ai-fêng (Kaifeng)

Jews first settled in Kaifeng, the capital of Henan province in central China, before 1127. According to scholars, they had come from India or Persia, spoke Persian, and worked as cotton dyers and…
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Just Published!

Volume 7: National Renaissance and International Horizons, 1880–1918, ed. Israel Bartal and Kenneth B. Moss, offers over 1,000 texts and images from Arabic to Yiddish, from mystical visions to revolutionary poetry—an essential starting point for understanding the Jewish 20th century

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