Tikvah
Editors’ Pick

April 18, 2016

The Mysteries of the Monk’s Haggadah

A medieval manuscript with anti-Semitic commentary and Christian imagery.

Sometime in the late 15th century, an illuminated manuscript of the Haggadah came into the possession of a monastery in southern Germany, which then passed it on to the Christian Hebraist Erhard von Pappenheim, who appended a detailed prologue. The entire manuscript, prologue included, has now been published with a series of scholarly introductions. Philip Getz writes:

SaveGift