Ma’aleh Beith Chorin. Including commentaries by Moshe Alsheich, Yehudah Löw, Ephraim Luntschitz, et al. Translation into Judeo-German by Joel Brill.

(HAGADAH).

The Widow and Son of Jacob Proops

Amsterdam

1810

|*| 1847. Yudlov 914. |.| 1856. Yudlov 1030. |*| 1857. Yudlov 1054. |*| 1861. Yudlov 1841. |*| 1883. Yudlov 1630. |*| 1895. Yudlov 1968. |*| 1895. Yudlov 1969.

The map of the Holy Land first appeared in the Amsterdam Hagadah of 1695, which in turn was based on Adrichom’s map “Theatrum Terrae Sanctae” (1590). Due to its popularity, this Hebrew map was reissued in the 1712, 1781 and 1810 editions of the Amsterdam Hagadah. The original map was engraved by Abraham bar Ya’akov, a German priest who converted to Judaism in Amsterdam. His name appears at center bottom. To the right of his name, there is a cartouche containing the 42 encampments of the Israelites in the Sinai Wilderness. In the lower right corner is a depiction of the Egyptian Pharaoh seated atop a crocodile (see Ezekiel 29:3). Other fanciful depictions include (bottom left to right): beehives and milk cows (“A land flowing with milk and honey”); an eagle with outspread wings (see Exodus 19:4); King Hiram of Tyre’s fleet and rafts; and Jonah first thrown into, and then spewed from, the jaws of the whale. The Land of Israel is presented in landscape fashion, rather than portrait fashion, which is to say, one finds East at the top, North at left, South at right, and the Mediterranean Sea in the foreground. See E. and G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992) W.21 (pp. 52).