Hagadah shel Pesach. According to the rite of Baghdad. With Judeao- Arabic translation

(HAGADAH)

E. Ben Amzug and Children

Livorno

1887

Illustrated

Yudlov 1721; Yaari 1287

A PETITE MANUSCRIPT HAGADAH OF GREAT CHARM The Hagadah follows the rite of Baghdad, including all of the splendid associated piyutim (religious poems). Cf. Sepher Orach Hayim: Passover Hagadah with commentary of R. Joseph Hayim of Baghdad (Ben Ish Chai) (Jerusalem: Ozar Hamizrah, 1978). According to David Sasoon (of Baghdadi descent) the passages Amru Rabbotheinu and Atah Ga’alta were adopted by the Baghdadi rite from the Yemenite Seder, while the poem Emunim Archu Shevah comes from the Aleppo Siddur (Prayer-Book). See Ohel Dawid (1932), Vol. I, p. 234, no. 238. Elsewhere in Ohel Dawid (Vol. I, p. 562, no. 303) there appears the name of a Baghdadi gentleman “Aaron Salah Ezekiel” who might very well be the scribe of this manuscript. A Scroll of Esther recently sold at auction bears a striking resemblance to the present manuscript offered. For motifs utilized in manuscripts from the region, see Israel Museum Catalogue, Yehudei Kurdistan (1981) p. 222