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When the Sarajevo Haggadah first went on permanent display at Bosnia’s national history museum in 2002, it was seen as a ...
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You can weaponize our Haggadah, but our story will prevail
Israel stance ignores the history and content of the very artifact it chooses to weaponize, just as it ignores the truth here ...
The museum’s move to send proceeds from a historic Sarajevo Haggadah to Palestinian Arabs while accusing Israel of genocide ...
The Sarajevo Haggadah, the most elaborately decorated codex remaining from Spanish Jewry’s Golden Age and today a keystone of Bosnia’s Jewish and gentile heritage, has been kept for the past ...
The origins of the Sarajevo Haggadah are shrouded in mystery. It is an exquisitely illuminated 14th-century codex, most probably smuggled out of Spain by Sephardic Jews following their expulsion ...
To the untrained eye, the Sarajevo Haggadah might seem like something one would pass over on first glance. The cover is battered, the binding beat up; the thing looks like it’s been through the ...
A tale some 600 years old will turn another page Oct. 20, when the multimedia concert “The Sarajevo Haggadah: Music of the Book” has its D.C. premiere. The production, with an original ...
The museum, accusing Israel of "cold-blooded terror," said it would donate proceeds from its most valuable artifact to Palestinians.The post Sarajevo museum turns ancient Haggadah into ‘Palestine’ mon ...
A Haggadah is a narrative of the Exodus read at the Passover Seder service. Sarajevo’s 109-page text is unique because it is handwritten on bleached calfskin, and illuminated in copper and gold ...
The Sarajevo Haggadah is a manuscript with a fascinating history: It was made in medieval Spain, survived the 1492 Inquisition, ended up in Venice, then Sarajevo.
The “Partisan Haggadah” entered the Sarajevo community’s canon several years after the war. Altarac continued to write and entertain for Jewish holidays, writing yearly comedic musical ...
The Sarajevo Haggadah, which currently resides in the city's National Museum and is insured for over a billion dollars, has been the subject of numerous dangerous rescues over the last 100 years.