Haggadah

The curiosity of the Haggadah published in Metz in 1767 is that the Hebrew text is accompanied by both Yiddish and Ladino translations, the languages of the Ashkenazi and the Sephardic communities, which can be understood by the ethnic characteristics of the area. This was the first illustrated Hagaddah edition printed in France. The illustrations were taken over from the Amsterdam Haggadah of Jacob Proops, who adapted, thanks to his proselyte colleague, Matthaeus Merian’s Icones Biblicae series. The title page was left blank by the printing house and was filled out in Bratislava only after the purchase of the Haggadah, where the owner wrote his name on it.