Catalog of Catalogs Online, A Bibliography of Temporary Exhibition Catalogs Since 1876 that Contain Items of Judaica

Haggadahs from Harvard
(127 words)

Curators

Charles Berlin, Lee M. Friedman.

Collection

Harvard University Libraries.

Imprint

Washington, D.C., USA, 1972. Leaflet, 4 pp., illustrations: 2 b&w, 14.5 × 22.5 cm. English.

Location

B’nai B’rith Klutznick Exhibit Hall (8 March–28 April 1972)

Description

16th–20th-century Haggadot from Harvard University’s vast collection, displayed in six sections: imprints, translations, Haggadot with unusual features, non-traditional Haggadot, facsimiles, and illustrations. General description of each section. No itemized listing.

main keywords

HAGGADOT

minor keywords

Haggadot, illuminated manuscripts
Haggadot, Israeli
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Bohemia-Moravia & Germany, 17th–19th C
Printed books

Related ephemera

Exhibition review, describing in great detail a more extensive version of this exhibition shown the previous year at Harvard’s Widener Library (10 March–17 April 1971). The Widener Library hosted a similar exhibition in 1970 as well. Reprint from Harvard, vol. 73/No. 9 (March 22, 1971), pp. 41–44. 10 b&w figs.

Cite this page
“Haggadahs from Harvard”, in: Catalog of Catalogs Online, A Bibliography of Temporary Exhibition Catalogs Since 1876 that Contain Items of Judaica. Consulted online on 26 September 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004444522_COCO_CC0454>
First published online: 2019



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