Bien, H[erman] M[ilton]. Easter Eve. The “New Hagodoh shel Pesach.” A Metrical Family-Feast Service

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(HAGADAH).

Bien, H[erman] M[ilton]. Easter Eve. The “New Hagodoh shel Pesach.” A Metrical Family-Feast Service

Hebrew and English pp. 28. Ex-library. Contemporary pictorial boards. 4to Yudlov 1701; Singerman 3408

Cincinnati: Bloch 1886

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $800

A most idiosyncratic title for a Hebrew liturgical text! Rather than provide an English translation of the Hagadah, the author has creatively devised a skit rendered in metrical rhyme and to be divided between family members seated at the Seder