Festivals and Fasts

An Episode in Metz, France Two Hundred Years Ago During the period of the Tosafists, Metz boasted a significant Jewish community. Rabbi Eliezer ben Shemuel, a disciple of Rabbenu Tam […]

Every year with the approach of Passover new Haggadah editions make their appearance. In recent years the Diskin Orphan Home of Israel — the oldest charitable institution of the Holy […]

Historical sources attest to the presence of Jews in Hanover’s Altstadt (old city) in 1292. Suffering during the Black Death persecutions as well as expulsion were the lot of the […]

Though only few copies of the Venice Haggadah of 1609 are extant, many a reader may have a feeling that he had already seen quite a number of its pictures; […]

Rabbi Elazar Hurvitz, a member of the faculty of Yeshiva University, is the editor of excellent editions of works by Rishonim. He is also a very diligent student of the […]

Jews were permitted to settle in Wandsbek towards the end of the 16th century. In the middle of the 17th century a number of Jews, fugitives from the Chmielnicki massacres […]

This Haggadah was written in 1771 by the Torah scribe Netanel, the son of Aaron Segal (סג”ל), about whom we have no further information. Several entries on two pages preceding […]

This Haggadah, which features a German Translation by Wolf Heidenheim, was printed in Roedelheim, Germany. There is no exact indication when it was printed. Heidenheim’s translations were printed for the […]

The Haggadah, which is reproduced here, was printed in Warsaw by the “Stereotyp” printing press. The year of printing is not given. According to Abraham Yaari’s “Bibliography of the Passover […]

The eighteenth century saw a renaissance of the illuminated manuscript Haggadah. During that period about 240 printed editions of the Haggadah appeared, but illuminated handwritten Haggadoth were also used. Evidence […]