The Passover Haggadah : a biography / Vanessa L. Ochs.
"This telling of the life of the Haggadah, probably the most beloved of books that Jews own, chronicles its recalibrations over time. It moves from its early sources in the Bible and rabbinic literature; to the years it was a handwritten manuscript; to its life as an illuminated book in the mid...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: The Life of the Haggadah
- Chapter 1. How the Haggadah Came to Be: Early Sources in the Bible, Tosefta, Mishnah, Talmud, and Midrash
- Chapter 2. On Becoming a Book: From the Earliest Haggadot to the Illuminated Haggadot of the Middle Ages
- Chapter 3. The Printed Haggadah and Its Enduring Conventions: A Text of One's Own
- Chapter 4. Twentieth- Century Variations: The Haggadah in American Jewish Movements, Israeli Kibbutzim, and American Third Seders
- Chapter 5. Haggadot of Darkness
- Chapter 6. The Haggadah of the Moment
- Acknowledgments
- Resources
- Glossary
- Notes
- Index.