Gupho shel Pesach o Hagadath Pesach LeTinoketh Yisrael [“The Essence of Passover; or, A Passover Hagadah for Jewish Children”]

Estimate: Not recorded
Hammer price: $400

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author

(HAGADAH).

printer

Trebitsch & Son

Place

Berlin

Publication

1830

Description

Text in Judeo-German.

references

Yerushalmi pl.90 and pp.72-3; Vinograd, Berlin 554

summary

Unique in its style and content, this “Hagadah” is in fact an anonymously penned Christian missionary tract seeking the conversion of Jewish youth. Its tone is unusually understated, its chosen format no more than a dialogue between a Jewish father and his son seeking to explore the deeper meaning of the paschal lamb. The subtlety of language distinguishes the publication from others of the genre, the theorem being exclusively within the framework of Jewish belief.

Contemporary marbled wrappers, broken. 8vo

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