The Fuerth Haggadah, 1741
״One should know that it is a Mitzva . . . to tell our children on this night about the exodus from Egypt . . . for this reason our […]
״One should know that it is a Mitzva . . . to tell our children on this night about the exodus from Egypt . . . for this reason our […]
The Haggadah, which is reproduced here, was printed in Amsterdam in 1662. It was modeled on Haggadoth published in Venice several decades earlier. In 1599 an illustrated Haggadah, reflected the […]
Sulzbach, a town in southern Germany, never had a large Jewish community, but it was widely known in the Jewish world for the many Hebrew and Judeo-German books which were […]
The Haggadah, which is reproduced here, was written and illustrated by Moshe ben Nathan HaKohen, a disciple of Rabbi Moshe Sofer, also know as Chatam Sofer, Pressburg’s famous rabbi. He […]
The illustrated Haggadah, a facsimile of which is presented here, was produced in 1719 by the scribe Meshullam Zimel. He was one of the 18th century artist-scribes, who wrote and […]
The Jewish community of Frankfurt on the Main was one of the oldest and most important in Germany. A Jewish community was already in existence there in the twelfth century. […]
One of the causes of the renaissance of the illumination of Haggadoth, Esther scrolls and other religious manuscripts during the eighteenth century, was the rise of new circles of wealthy […]
The Haggadah, which is reproduced here, was printed in Amsterdam in 1662. It was modeled on Haggadoth published in Venice several decades earlier. In 1599 an illustrated Haggadah, reflected the […]
Rabbis, scholars and writers used to send on Purim—in addition to the traditional Mishloah Manot—spiritual food to their dear ones: a song, a study, even an entire book, they had […]
Rashi, Ibn Ezra and the Ramban are the great early commentators of the Pentateuch. Unlike the two others, the commentary of the Ramban is multi-dimension. It offers the student simple […]