Our resources include source commentaries and resources created by members of our community, learning resources about topics including the Holocaust and the Kindertransport, and videos of research seminars, lectures, and events.
Digital exhibitions
Primary source commentaries
Experts from the Parkes Institute have produced a series of primary source commentaries to support your historical understanding of a number of key events and across various themes. Use these sources in the classroom, as part of your research, or to learn more about the subject matter.
Visual Media
- Film as a Source: Fiddler on the Roof
- Comedy as a Source: Lenny Bruce’s “Jewish vs Goyish.”
- Comedy as Source: So Haunt Me
- Odessa, Jews in the Bund and 1905 pogroms
Objects
Texts
- Family letters as a source: Father and daughter discuss emigration
- Family letters as a source: The lives and memories of East European migrants
- James Parkes responds to the Holocaust, 1943
- Family letters as a source: From grandfather to grandson
- Letters as Evidence of Interfaith Relationships
- Targum Isaiah: Translation as Commentary