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Prague Haggadah

  Prague was the first city north of the Alps where Hebrew books were printed, starting with a daily prayer book in 1512. Nine other editions preceded the famous illustrated Prague Haggadah, completed on 30 December 1526. Printed by Gershom Katz and his brother Grunim, its woodcuts may have been the creation of Hayyim Schwarz. […]

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Mantua Haggadah

  One of the highlights in the history of the illustrated Haggadah is this edition of 1560, printed in the Duchy of Mantua on the press of the Christian printer Giacomo Rufinelli under the supervision of the shammes of one of the synagogues of Mantua, Isaac ben Samuel Bassan. While it relies heavily on the […]

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Herlingen Haggadah

  Aaron ben Benjamin Wolf Herlingen was born in Gewitsch, Moravia, around 1700, and worked in Pressburg (now Bratislava), Vienna, and perhaps elsewhere (see cat. no. 47). A 1736 census in Press- burg listing Herlingen as “The Moravian Aaron of Gewitsch, official in the Imperial Library in Vienna: one wife, one assistant, one handmaid,” proves […]

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Haggadah

  Aaron Wolf Herlingen had reached the pinnacle of his mastery, naming himself as the artist in Hebrew, Latin, German and French on the title page. With the exception of the Ten Plagues, done in color, all illustrations here were created in ink and gouache. On the map of the Holy Land, Herlingen drew the […]

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Nathan ben Simson of Mezeritsch Haggadah

  Nathan ben Simson of Mezeritsch (now Velke Mezirici, Czech Republic) is known to have produced at least twenty-five illustrated manuscripts, with dates ranging from 1723 to 1739. His output includes Haggadot, Grace after Meals, Tikkunei Shabbat (mystical prayers for the Sabbath), Tefillot Yom Kippur Katan (prayers for the Minor Day of Atonement), books for […]

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Braginsky Leipnik Haggadah

  Until it appeared for auction in New York in 2007 and was subsequently acquired for the Braginsky Collection, this Passover Haggadah had resided in private hands and was not known in scholarly literature. Other works of Joseph ben David of Leipnik are well known; a number of his works appeared in facsimile editions in […]

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Hijman Binger Haggadah

  Hijman (Hayyim ben Mordecai) Binger (1756–1830) is best known for a decorated daily prayer book, now in the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana (Hs. Ros. 681) in Amsterdam, which he executed in cooperation with his sons, Marcus and Anthonie, in 1820. He also copied numerous single-leaf manuscripts of contemporary poetry, mostly for family occasions, which are now […]

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Haggadah with a German translation

  Using different styles of lettering, Mezeritsch distinguishes the Haggadah text, the Hebrew commentary, and the German translation in Hebrew letters clearly from one another. The four sons are given individual, innovative images in this Haggadah. They symbolize the next generation to whom the customs of Passover are to be handed down in various ways. […]

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Charlotte von Rothschild Haggadah

  In his memoirs, the first modern Jewish painter, Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (1800–1882) wrote: “But the culmination of my instruction came when she illustrated the Haggadah for her uncle Amschel. I made the designs for the subjects, and she carried them out in the style of old missals. . . . For this she procured […]

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Bouton Haggadah

  This is one of the most unusual Hebrew manuscripts of the post-medieval period. Every page is illuminated with geometrical designs executed in lapis lazuli and gold; subtle, multicolored floral elements with separate designs surround individual lines of text, while delicate blue pen-work extends into the outer margins. Tiny sprinkles of gold embellish the pages. […]

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