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Haggadah illustration: “Passage through the Red Sea”

Jacob Steinhardt1921/22

Jewish Museum Berlin

Jewish Museum Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Woodcut print by Jakob Steinhardt (1887–1968), from the Pessah Haggadah published in Berlin in 1921–22.

Jakob Steinhardt personally signed the prints in Hebrew. This one shows a mass of people on the left. Moses as a bearded man in a cloak in the foreground. People are portrayed recoiling in horror, looking to their right. To the rear of the crowd is a laden camel.

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  • Title: Haggadah illustration: “Passage through the Red Sea”
  • Creator: Jakob Steinhardt
  • Date: 1921/22
  • Location: Berlin
  • Provenance: Permanent Loan of the Friends of the Jewish Museum
  • Inventarnummer: L-2003/6/1
Jewish Museum Berlin

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