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9780827606241

Haggadah & History: A Panorama in Facsimile of Five Centuries of the Printed Haggadah from the Collections of Harvard University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of

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  • ISBN13:

    9780827606241

  • ISBN10:

    0827606249

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-11-15
  • Publisher: Jewish Pubn Society
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $75.00

Summary

This book is much more than a history of the Passover Haggadah. It is also a mirror of the last five centuries in Jewish history-as reflected in the Haggadah itself.

Table of Contents

Preface to the 1997 Edition 5(4)
Preface 9(4)
Introduction: On the Passover Haggadah 13(1)
The Book of Remembrance and Redemption
14(2)
The Written and the Printed Word
16(9)
Haggadah Illustration: Debuts, Milestones, and Archetypes
25(25)
The Gates of Interpretation
50(3)
The Many Tents of Jacob
53(6)
The Many Tongues of Exile
59(7)
Modern Visions and Revisions
66(5)
Parodies--Satiric, Esoteric, and Blasphemous
71(4)
In the Midst of History
75(11)
List of Abbreviations 86(2)
Plates and Plate Descriptions
87(402)
Selected Bibliography 489(4)
Index 493

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