Festivals and Fasts

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 […]

Book review of “Jews in Old Poland” By Isaac Lewin The study of the history of the Jews of Poland is Isaac Lewin’s specialty.  Years before the outbreak of World […]