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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 ...
National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina says profits from its sale of a publication about a historic Haggadah will be ...
The museum’s move to send proceeds from a historic Sarajevo Haggadah to Palestinian Arabs while accusing Israel of genocide ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Sarajevo native Merima Ključo can relate to the story of the Sarajevo Haggadah, the 14th-century illuminated manuscript that survived many close calls with destruction. Both have escaped war and ...
"By its recent actions, the museum disgraces itself and disrespects the generations of Jews who read from this haggadah at their Seder tables," the American Jewish Committee said.The post Bosnian ...
SARAJEVO, Bosnia, May 2 (JTA) – The famous Sarajevo Haggadah is alive and reasonably well – and living in an underground bank vault in the heart of the Bosnian capital.
The Sarajevo Haggadah was created in Barcelona, circa 1350, for a prominent Jewish family. Evidence of the family’s connection with the rulers of the Kingdom of Aragon is shown by the heraldic ...
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 “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 ...