The Scholar's Haggadah: Ashkenazic, Sephardic, and Oriental Versions

by Peter L. Giovacchini and Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

Book Overview

In this unprecedented masterwork, The Scholar's Haggadah: Ashkenazic, Sephardic, and Oriental Versions, Heinrich Guggenheimer presents the first Haggadah to treat the texts of all Jewish groups on an equal footing and to use their divergences and concurrences as a key to the history of the text and an understanding of its development.

The Seder (the ceremony of the Passover night) is one of the most universally celebrated rituals among...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765760401
• ISBN13: 9780765760401
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"