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Author Ochs, Vanessa L., author.

Title The Passover Haggadah : a biography / Vanessa L. Ochs.

Publication Info. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]

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 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  296.4537 OCHS    Check Shelf
Description x, 214 pages ; 20 cm.
Series Lives of great religious books
Lives of great religious books.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : the life of the Haggadah -- How the Haggadah came to be : early sources in the Bible, Tosefta, Mishnah, Talmud, and Midrash -- On becoming a book : from the earliest Haggadot to the Illuminated Haggadot of the Middle Ages -- The printed Haggadah and its enduring conventions : a text of one's own -- Twentieth century variations : the Haggadah in American Jewish movements, Israeli Kibbutzim, and American third Seders -- Haggadot of darkness -- The Haggadah of the moment.
Summary "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 middle ages; to its emergence as mass-produced printed book and later, as an artist's book; to its iterations in the twentieth century in America and Israel, including those using emerging technologies of our day. It is the story of a liturgical text came about to fulfill a biblical injunction to fathers to tell the story of the Exodus from Egypt to their children (literally, to their sons): "And you shall tell your son on that day, 'It is because of what the Lord did for me when I went free from Egypt'" (Exodus 13:8). Despite significant flaws in the text that have occasioned thousands of revisions, it remains well and alive because it allows its users to transmit the story of Exodus as if it happened to them. With a Haggadah in hand at a Passover seder meal, the text kindles the memory of belonging to a people who knew slavery and then liberation and enlivens empathy. An engagement with the Haggadah, inevitably leaves one feeling responsible for helping others to achieve their own liberation"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Haggadah -- History.
Haggadot -- Texts -- History and criticism.
Haggadah. (OCoLC)fst01356292
Haggadot -- Texts. (OCoLC)fst01425463
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Online version: Ochs, Vanessa L. The Passover Haggadah Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2020. 9780691201528 (DLC) 2019030566
ISBN 9780691144986 hardcover
0691144982 hardcover
9780691201528 electronic publication
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