The Passover Haggadah of the Talmudic Encyclopedia
A Short time ago the Passover Haggadah of the Talmdic Encyclopedia came off the press in Jerusalem. The Haggadah which is entirely in Hebrew, consists of two parts. The first […]
A Short time ago the Passover Haggadah of the Talmdic Encyclopedia came off the press in Jerusalem. The Haggadah which is entirely in Hebrew, consists of two parts. The first […]
Exiled after the destruction of the first Beis Hamikdash, a Jewish community seeks guidance “The Passover Letter” is the name given by scholars to a papyrus scroll discovered over a […]
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; […]
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 […]