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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…

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Artist Unknown

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Date:

1502

Subjects:

Haggadah, Holidays, Passover, Family, Ritual & observance

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Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology, Literature
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.
Top: Searching for Hametz; Bottom: Passover Seder Among Sephardic Jews
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Between 1723 and 1737, illustrator Bernard Picart partnered with the Dutch bookseller, editor, and publisher Jean-Frédéric Bernard on Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (R…

Contributor:

Bernard Picart

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1725

Subjects:

Holidays, Passover, Food and drink, Family, Sephardic

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Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Print depicting two scenes with French text under frames: top shows women and girls in kitchen looking through cupboards and cleaning the table. Bottom shows eight individuals around a dining table in ornate room with lit fire in fireplace.
Preparing for Passover
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This illustration depicting Jews baking matzah and cleaning the house for Passover appeared in the book Jüdisches Ceremoniel (Jewish Ceremonial Customs), by Paul Christian Kirchner, a Jewish convert…

Contributor:

Paul Christian Kirchner, Johann Georg Puschner, Sebastian Jugendres

Places:

Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)

Date:

1724

Subjects:

Holidays, Passover, Food and drink, Family, Conversion

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Food & drink
Print engraving of scenes indoors and outdoors of people cooking in kitchen, cleaning, using oven, and gathering wheat.