Venice Haggadah

Moses ben Gershon Parenzo

1629

Printed page with Hebrew and Judeo-Italian text in center, and side columns of Hebrew text, with decorated archway above columns and illustration of groups of men on the bottom of the page.
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Moses ben Gershon Parenzo

17th Century

Moses ben Gershon Parenzo was the last of a family of Hebrew printers active in Venice in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The patriarch of the family, Jacob (d. 1546), came to Venice from Parenzo, on the Dalmatian coast of Italy. In 1629, Moses worked for the Venetian printer Giovanni di Gara.

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