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It's not that they were exceptionally sophisticated or tolerant, as one popular recent article would have it—it's that they lived surrounded by people who raised pigs.
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A few months ago, I was approached with a request to become involved in a then-secret mission: to examine one of the very few high-medieval Haggadahs still in private hands.
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A sumptuous new book collects 100 examples of decorated and illuminated haggadahs from across Europe, Israel, America, and beyond.
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The answer depends on how one punctuates the Bible's Passover story.
