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National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina says profits from its sale of a publication about a historic Haggadah will be ...
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You can weaponize our Haggadah, but our story will prevail
Israel stance ignores the history and content of the very artifact it chooses to weaponize, just as it ignores the truth here ...
The museum’s move to send proceeds from a historic Sarajevo Haggadah to Palestinian Arabs while accusing Israel of genocide ...
The museum, accusing Israel of "cold-blooded terror," said it would donate proceeds from its most valuable artifact to Palestinians.The post Sarajevo museum turns ancient Haggadah into ‘Palestine’ mon ...
"By its recent actions, the museum disgraces itself and disrespects the generations of Jews who read from this haggadah at their Seder tables," the American Jewish Committee said.The post Bosnian ...
The origins of the Sarajevo Haggadah are shrouded in mystery. It is an exquisitely illuminated 14th-century codex, most probably smuggled out of Spain by Sephardic Jews following their expulsion ...
The Sarajevo Haggadah is considered one of the most valuable items of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is only displayed on special occasions, usually during Passovers.
To the untrained eye, the Sarajevo Haggadah might seem like something one would pass over on first glance. The cover is battered, the binding beat up; the thing looks like it’s been through the ...
The Sarajevo Haggadah, the most elaborately decorated codex remaining from Spanish Jewry’s Golden Age and today a keystone of Bosnia’s Jewish and gentile heritage, has been kept for the past ...
A tale some 600 years old will turn another page Oct. 20, when the multimedia concert “The Sarajevo Haggadah: Music of the Book” has its D.C. premiere. The production, with an original ...
The “Partisan Haggadah” entered the Sarajevo community’s canon several years after the war. Altarac continued to write and entertain for Jewish holidays, writing yearly comedic musical ...
The Sarajevo Haggadah is a manuscript with a fascinating history: It was made in medieval Spain, survived the 1492 Inquisition, ended up in Venice, then Sarajevo.