The David Moss Hagadah: "A Song of David. - Hagadat Shir Hama’alot LeDavid.”

THE DAVID MOSS HAGADAH. An immensely creative production whose artistic innovations are all the more inspiring, based as they often are, upon Midrashic and historic sources dating back centuries. - Such as: f. 13: An intricately executed papercut birdcage laid atop images of characters who populate the medieval Bird’s Head Haggada. f. 20: Tasks the reader in every generation to see himself as one who is redeemed from Egypt. Moss uses an alternating pattern of small ovoid mirrors and portraits of Jews from different historic epochs to evoke the ‘personal’ feeling of the directive. f. 32: Features both a reproduction and micrographical impression of a First-Temple era seal belonging to Jew named Sholom. f. 41: A swiveling cup illustrating the maxim “Pour out Thy wrath:” The Cup of Elijah must be 'poured' or turned by the reader in order to read to the end of the text. f. 44-45: Drawings of micro-organism and sections of human tissue appearing with prayer of “Nishmath” describing how every creature will praise God with every fiber of their being. f. 40v: Paper pull away piece featuring house with small cut-away windows revealing a series of country maps containing the local Jewish dialect. f. 47: Aleph-bet metamorphosis of the 26 Hebrew letter - where letter 1 and 26 morph in and out of each other. Style continues: letter 2 morphing into 25. A magnificent bibliophillic achievement. Unquestionably a worthy member within the ranks of the very finest produced Hebrew books.