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Song at the Sea (Exodus 15), Leningrad Codex
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Song at the Sea (Exodus 15), Leningrad Codex, 1009 CE. The photo shows the first fourteen verses of the poem (Exodus 15:1–14) and a few prose verses from the end of the preceding chapter. The text of…

Places:

Cairo, Egypt

Date:

1009

Subjects:

Poetry, Scribal culture, Scholarship, Writing, Passover

Categories:

Poetry, Print & book culture
Manuscript page of Hebrew text arranged in verses.
Haggadah from Prague, 1526
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This Haggadah from Prague, printed by Gershom and Grunim Katz with illustrations that are thought to be by Ḥayyim ben David Shaḥor, is one of the earliest Haggadahs ever printed. It was the first…

Contributor:

Gershom Katz, Ḥayyim Schwarz

Places:

Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)

Date:

1526

Subjects:

Print, Haggadah, Passover, Christian-Jewish relations, Polemics

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Facing-page of printed Hebrew text on right side and illustration on left side of Hebrew text surrounded by four full-length figures, decorative border, and two animal-human hybrids on the bottom of page on either side of shield with lion.
Venice Haggadah
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This Haggadah from Venice was commissioned by Moses ben Gerson Parenzo, the last of the Parenzo Hebrew printers, and issued at the Caleoni press on behalf of the Bragadini family. This page shows the…

Contributor:

Moses ben Gershon Parenzo

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1629

Subjects:

Print, Haggadah, Passover, Holidays, Art

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
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.
Haggadah
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In 1583, Mattetiah ben David Spagnolo completed this illuminated Haggadah for Leon ben Judah Bili. Greek (Romaniote/Byzantine) Jews had lived on the island of Crete since the Second Temple period…

Contributor:

Mattetiah Spagnolo

Places:

Candia, Venice (Heraklion, Greece)

Date:

1583

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Haggadah, Holidays, Passover, Writing

Categories:

Print & book culture
Manuscript page with Hebrew text in center, large decorated Hebrew word at the top of the page next to illustration of figure at top right pouring wine, and illustration of people seated at table at bottom of page.
Illustrations from Sefer minhagim (Book of Customs)
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These woodcuts appeared in Sefer minhagim (Book of Customs), a very popular Yiddish book published by Giovanni di Gara, the leading publisher of Jewish books in Venice from 1564 to 1609. It was the…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1600/1

Subjects:

Holidays, Purim, Passover, Music, Food and drink

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Woodcut illustration of six standing figures, three of whom are wearing masks and holding instruments, with Yiddish text above and below.
Judeo-Persian Haggadah from Kaifeng
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. . . and caused us to reach this appointed time.On the first night, one should recite the blessing “who has kept us alive . . .” But on the second night, one should not read it.Blessed are…

Contributor:

Unknown

Places:

Kaifeng, Qing Dynasty (Kaifeng, China)

Date:

17th Century

Subjects:

Print, Haggadah, Passover, Diaspora

Categories:

Print & book culture
Facing-page manuscript with Judeo-Persian text.
Haggadah
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This page from a Haggadah produced in Amsterdam is an example of the work of Joseph Ben David Leipnik, a prominent eighteenth-century scribe and artist known particularly for his illustrated Haggadahs…

Contributor:

Joseph Leipnik

Places:

Holy Roman Empire (Altona, Germany)

Date:

1737

Subjects:

Haggadah, Holidays, Passover, Illuminated manuscripts

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art, Ritual Objects
Manuscript page with Hebrew writing on top and illustration below of three central figures in hats and holding swords, next to a horse, camel, dogs, and two tents, with people in the left background and mountains beyond.
The Shohet (from “Had Gadya”)
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The violence of the Passover song “Had Gadya” (“Who Knows One”) clearly spoke to this illustrator’s sense of horror following World War I.

Contributor:

Menachem Birnbaum

Places:

Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1920

Subjects:

Holidays, Passover, Animals, Violence

Categories:

Cartooning & graphic art, Print & book culture
Illustration of man in a bloody apron holding a bloody knife as he begins to slaughter a large animal.
Flörsheim Haggadah
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This Haggadah, decorated in the Ashkenazic tradition, was copied in northern Italy. As is traditional for Ashkenazic Haggadahs, illustrations appear in the margins and frame the text. At the top left…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Date:

1502

Subjects:

Haggadah, Holidays, Passover, Family, Ritual & observance

Categories:

Print & book culture
Single manuscript page with Hebrew text, two illustrations on the left margin of two people at a table with an herb and of a person next to child, and an illustration on the bottom of people sitting around a table while man waits outside the door.
Haggadah
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The frontispiece of this Haggadah shows the biblical Aaron on the left, carrying the Temple incense, and Moses on the right, holding the tablets of the Law. The scene at the bottom of the page shows a…

Contributor:

Aaron Wolff Herlingen of Gewitsch

Places:

Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)

Date:

1725

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Haggadah, Holidays, Passover, Angels, demons & deities

Categories:

Print & book culture
Manuscript page with Hebrew text in center and illustrations surrounding, including figures on left and right of text, two cherubs above text, and group of people below.