Parent, librarian, public servant, person in Boston
Jay Moschella
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This haggadah is also a story of Jewish survival. The property of a German Jewish family, it was brought with them as they fled Germany in 1937. They eventually settled in Rhode Island, where this book stayed in use 6/7
I feel like something I really excel at at this point in my life is spotting difficult to discern birds of prey perched in the trees while I drive down the highway
BPL's newest exhibition "Declarations: Printing a New Nation" opens today, April 11!
For the first time ever, the BPL's 8 rare printings of the Declaration will be displayed together, inviting visitors to step into a moment when American independence, and the nation itself, was still taking shape.
The images in this, the so-called Amsterdam haggadah were largely copied from a cycle of Biblical images by a Christian Swiss artist. Here used for the first time in this context, the illustrations were hugely influential and were copied in vast numbers of subsequent editions of the Haggadah 3/7
OK for fun: top funniest tweet ever? I am torn between "moon's haunted" and "Denise I was at your wedding."
The haggadah guides the retelling of the story of Exodus that forms the heart of the seder. Unlike many other liturgical books, there is no prescribed form or format, and contents often vary widely from edition to edition. 2/7
