(HAGADAH).

S.H. Jackson

New York

1837 (Hebrew chronogram: “Next Year in Jerusalem.”)

Seder Hagadah shel Pesach - Service for the First Two Nights of the Passover, in Hebrew and English: According to the Custom of the German & Spanish Jews. Translated into English by the late David Levi of London. Grace after Meal [or “meat”] in two columns: “Grace used by the German and Polish Jews” (Minhag Aschkenaz) and “Grace used by the Spanish Jews” (Minhag Sepharad)

Yudlov 779; Yaari 562; Yerushalmi 93; Goldman 125.

The First Hagadah Printed in America. “A case of American Jews declaring their cultural independence from the mother country.” See A.J. Karp, Beginnings: Early American Judaica (1975) pp. 38. A celebrated and exceptionally rare edition. Certainly one of the most desired high-spots in any collection of American Judaica. For just one other copy of this Hagadah sold by Kestenbaum & Company, see Fine Judaica, May 27th, 2010, lot 96 (the Gratz College copy).