Minhagim. According to the custom of Germany and Poland

(CEREMONIES)

Isaac di Cordova

Amsterdam

1723

With many woodcut illustrations of Jewish ceremonial life. Hebrew, with Judeo-German translation printed in Wayber-taytsch type. The Judah A. Joffe Copy

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1210

The many illuminating woodcuts illustrate selected holidays and observances through the religious and life cycles. They include: Bedikath Chametz (portraying a family search for chametz - the child holding a candle beneath the table, the father brushing the chamez into a wooden utensil and the mother balancing pitchers of water in case of fire, see f. 14b); kashering of utensils for Passover; going to a mill to grind the wheat for Matzah; a barber cutting hair on Lag Ba’Omer; marriage, circumcision, etc