Description:
First Limited Edition thus (1975). Limited to 5,000 copies. Fine in a fine lovely pictorial dust jacket. Fine in publisher's original white textured cloth with gilt titles and illustration. Content fine. Beautifully illustrated endpapers by Picart. Profusely illustrated throughout with 200 black and white facsimile plates of Haggadot across five centuries from around the world.. 4to. 8 1/2 x 12. 494 pp. A truly lovely copy of this amazing work. A rare blend of scholarship and art, Haggadah and History is not only a history of the Passover story, but a time traveling showcase of the last five centuries in Jewish history as reflected in the Haggadah itself. Two hundred facsimile plates reproduce representative pages from rare printed Haggadot in two of the world's outstanding Judaica collections: the libraries of Harvard University and The Jewish Theological Seminary.
Dr. Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (b. 1932) was educated at Yeshiva University, Columbia, and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. In… Read More
