The Passover Haggadah : : A Biography / / Vanessa L. Ochs.
The life and times of a treasured book read by generations of Jewish families at the seder tableEvery year at Passover, Jews around the world gather for the seder, a festive meal where family and friends come together to sing, pray, and enjoy traditional food while retelling the biblical story of th...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Lives of Great Religious Books ;
51 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 11 b/w illus. |
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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