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April 22, 2024

A Dutch Convert’s Illustrated Haggadah

The wise son as Hannibal.

Since the Middle Ages, Jewish scribes, printers, and artists have produced magnificent and varied illustrated Haggadahs, including the 14th-century masterpiece known as the Lombard Haggadah, with its anomalous picture of the slaughter of a pig. Rebecca J.W. Jefferson describes some of those found in the University of Florida’s Judaica collection, among them a Dutch Haggadah printed in 1695:

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