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Haggadah

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A compilation of stories, prayers, and hymns read at the Passover seder.

Video

The story of Arthur Szyk’s modernist illuminated Haggadah, created in 1934-36.

Translations

  • Hebrewהגדה
  • GermanHaggada
  • RussianПасхальная аггада
  • FrenchHaggada
  • DutchHagada
  • ItalianHaggadah
  • CzechHagada
  • HungarianHaggada
  • SpanishHagadá
  • GreekΑγκαντά
  • PolishHagada
  • Arabicنصوص عيد الفصح
  • Yiddishהגדה
  • LadinoHagada de Pesah

Bibliography

Bejarano, Ana, et al. Barcelona Haggadot: The Jewish Splendour of Catalan Gothic, Barcelona: Museu d’Història de Barcelona, 2015.

Epstein, Marc Michael. The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.

Friedberg, Haia. “The Unwritten Message – Visual Commentary in 20th Century Haggadah Illustration.” Jewish Art, edited by Aliza Cohen-Mushlin, vol. 16/17, 1990-1991, pp. 157-71.

Kogman-Appel, Katrin. Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain: Biblical Imagery and the Passover Holiday. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006.

Metzger, Mendel. La Haggada enluminée, Étude iconographique et stylistique des manuscrits enluminés et décorés de la Haggada du XIIIe au XVIe siècle. Vol. 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1973.

Parnes, Stephan O. et al. The Art of Passover. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1994, pp. 18-47.

Peled-Carmeli, Haviva. Illustrated Haggadot of the Eighteenth Century. Edited by Yona Fischer, Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1983.

Sabar, Shalom. “‘The Historical and Artistic Context of the Szyk Haggadah.” Freedom Illuminated: Understanding. The Szyk Haggadah, ed. Byron L. Sherwin and Irvin Ungar, Burlingame, CA: Historicana, 2008, pp. 33-170.

Tzur, Muki and Yuval Danieli, editors. Yotzim Be-Chodesh Ha-Aviv: Pesach Erez-Yisraeli be-Haggadot min ha-Kibbutz [Going out in the Spring: Eretz Israel Passover in Haggadot from the Kibbutz]. Jerusalem: Yad Yitshak Ben Zvi, 2004.

Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayyim, Haggadah and History: A Panorama in Facsimile of Five Centuries of the Printed Haggada from the Collections of Harvard University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America(Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1975.

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