Medrash B’Chodesh , a commentary on the Passover Haggadah by Rabbi Eliezer Nachman Foa. Venice, 1641. First edition.
With the haggadah text, printed with unvowelized letters. The author, Rabbi Eliezer Nachman Foa, was a rabbi, chassid and kabbalist, a disciple of the Rema of Fano and a teacher of Rabbi Moshe Zakut. He had a holy group of students in Reggio, called the “Chevrat Ha’Aluvim.” He lists their names at the end of his introduction. The last page features a special prayer, ‘התנצלות לפושעי ישראל’ composed by the author.
Leaf 2 bears the owner’s signature: Rabbi Shlomo Eliyahu ibn Tzur, a Fez sage [1822-1873], grandson of the Yaavetz, Rabbi Yaakov ibn Tzur. He wrote glosses and comments on his uncle’s work – Pnei Shlomo , as well as other works. He signed “שאב”ץ.” He also authored responsa and halachic decisions. Rare haggadah.
36 leaves. Approx. 20 cm. Otzar Haggadot 58.
Moderate condition. Part of the title page is completed with a professional copy, as well as leaves 29-32. Usage stains. New semi-leather binding.
Chiddushei Dinim MeHilchot Pesach and customs from Jerusalem relevant to the Seder night, in alphabetical order, authored by the sages of Jerusalem. Copied and expanded upon and brought to our country by the adjudicator from Jerusalem, Rabbi Yitzchak David son of Refael son of Yehudah. Mezhirov, 1803.
The pages are headed: Chiddushei Dinim MiYerushalayim . In his foreword, the printer writes that he found the text of this work in manuscript in Jerusalem and he copied and expanded on it. Now, as he is fundraising in Poland, he decided to print the book. Leaves 19-24: The order and customs of Passover night in Jerusalem. Rare book, particularly in such fine condition. Owner’s signature on the first leaf.
[2], 24 leaves. 14 cm. Light blue paper.
Very fine condition. New binding.
Seder Haggadah shel Pesach im HaPitaron B’Lashon Sepharadi [Ladino] … U’Vetocho Yasim … Demut Tzurot HaRomzot al kol HaOtot V’HaMoftim B’Otiyot Metzuyarot … Livorno, 1822.
Haggadah with Ladino translation and with many woodcut pictures. Among the first illustrated Haggadahs printed in Livorno.
40 leaves, 20 cm. Yaari 446, Otzar HaHaggadot 626.
Fine condition. Stains. Old cardboard binding.
Passover Haggadah (with English translation), called Ginzei Knesset Yisrael , by Dovber Speiers and Eliezer Grojewsky. London, Distillatar press, 1877. First edition.
Important Passover Haggadah, copied from Rabbi Shabtai Sofer’s well-known punctilious manuscript. Includes numerous additional commentaries, some of which were manuscripts found in the library of the Knesset Yisrael congregation in London. With English translation. This is the first edition of the haggadah, considered a masterpiece of the Jewish community in London.
VII, 48 pages, approximately 24 cm. Additional English title page. Otzar HaHaggadot 1483. Hebrew and English in facing columns.
Moderate condition. Loose pages and stains.
Passover haggadah with the Korban Pesach commentary by Rabbi Gedaliah [Silverstone]. Washington, published by the Hebrew Publishing Co. New York. 1910. First edition.
At the end of Hallel, there is a scene of Moshe Rabbeinu hitting the rock. In the commentary, the author writes about the Jewish society in America, and explains that the disdain of parents regarding mitzvah observance causes the disconnection of the children from any flicker of Judaism.
The author Rabbi Gedaliah Silverstone [1871-1944] was born in Poland and studied in the yeshivahs of Lithuania, lived in Liverpool and was then rabbi in Belfast. In 1905 he moved to the United States and was the first Orthodox rabbi in Washington. In his final years he lived in Jerusalem. He authored many books.
[32] leaves. 20 cm. Otzar HaHaggadot 2472. Goldman 162. Dinard, Kehillat America 224. Fine condition. Acidic paper. New paper binding.
Service for the First Nights of Passover . Edited by Joseph Loewy and Joseph Guens. Budapest, c. 1930.
Rare Haggadah with English translation, facsimiles of ancient illuminated haggadahs, and with musical notes. This haggadah is not listed by Yaari.
77 [3] pages, 24 cm. Wiener 274a, Ben Menachem 127a. Otzar HaHaggadot 3360.
Excellent condition. Never used. Original green velvet binding with gold embossed text and decorations.
Precise, deluxe facsimile edition of the famed 14th century Barcelona Haggadah by Facsimile Editions, a company that prides itself in “reproducing ancient manuscripts with unparalleled accuracy.” Limited, numbered edition. London, 1996.
This spectacular haggadah was originally written with large letters so that it can be used while in the “leaning” position on seder night. It was artistically illuminated in color and integrated with gold decorations. Copy no. 100 of 550, full leather binding, two volumes in a deluxe package. Identical to the original manuscript, including certificates of authenticity stamped by the British Library and “Facsimile Editions” themselves.
The haggadah is divided into two volumes: Volume I with the haggadah itself: 322 pages, 27×20 cm. 128 pages are illustrated, 180 pages include the text of the haggadah, and all the other pages include various hymns and prayers for Passover. Printed on special paper specially created by a small workshop in the Alps and known as the best-ever imitation vellum. Volume II features [1] 175 pages explaining how the facsimile in the first volume was created, the binding process, translations and elucidations to the haggadah text and hymns, a bibliography and more. English. Pages 60-61 features a unique, deep illustration of a round matzah, dominantly placed at center of the page with the text ‘מצה זו שאנו אוכלין’ [‘this matzah which we eat’]. The picture strays from the realm of art to that of commentary, as the matzah symbolizes the world. Those with sharp eyes can discern the four musicians at the four corners of the illustration blowing towards the “world.” Researchers believe that this blowing symbolizes the four winds of the heavens. Refer to: Kitvei Yad Ivriim Mitzuyarim , by Betzalel Narkis, p. 91.
Interestingly, when the Barcelona Haggadah was written and illustrated, people did not generally believe that the world was round. Different and strange shapes, but not necessarily round. It was only later that Magellan and Elcano conclusively proved that the Earth is round. As such, it is can be said that the illustrators of this haggadah were before their time with their perception of the shape of the world, perhaps because it was so written in the Zohar much, much earlier.
New condition. Never used, in the original package.
Seder Siach Yitzchak – Passover haggadah inspected with precision by the rabbinical grammarian … Yitzchak Levi of Satnov with Ashkenazic translation by his famed son … Shaima Shlomo [Dr. Shenman] z”l (though the translation was actually done by Yoel Brill). Alternately Hebrew and German. Introduction, instructions and laws in German. The last page features a sale of chametz contract in German. Engravings of the haggadah story.
33 leaves. 20 cm. Moderate-fine condition. Characteristic wine stains. Binding in disrepair. Rare copy. Yaari 718; Otzar HaHaggadot 973.
Chukat HaPesach . Kabbalistic rectifications for the month of Nissan, which include: Seder Korban Pesach, Seder Bedikat and Biur Chametz, Parashat HaNessi’im, Aravit prayer for Passover, Song of Songs, Pirkei Avot, a liturgical poem in honor of Rashb”i, Seder Erev Rosh Chodesh Sivan and Seder Leil Shavu’ot. With the Passover Haggadah, with a Judeo-Arabic commentary by Rabbi Avraham Ankava. Jerusalem. Yisrael Bek printing press, Jerusalem, [1843].
The book before us is one of the first Hebrew books printed in Jerusalem [only two years after the establishment of the Bek press], and the second haggadah that was printed in the Land of Israel and in Jerusalem. With the approbation of the Rishon LeTziyon Rabbi Chaim Avraham Gagin (Rabbi Aga”n), which is both an approbation and a blessing for the establishment of a Jewish printing house in the Holy City. [Sh. HaLevi, Sifrei Yerushalayim HaRishonim 12]. Ginzei Yisrael – The Mehlman Collection 589.
84 leaves. 15 cm. Otzar HaHaggadot 861. Moderate-fine condition. Characteristic wine stains. The white margins of several of the book’s leaves have been professionally restored. Restoration by professional photocopy of part of the text on leaf 81. New leather binding.
Service for the two first nights of Passover. According to the custom of the Spanish, Portuguese, and German Jews. With notes, explanatory and practical, carefully translated from the original Hebrew. By David Levi. London 1794. Especially rare haggadah.
First edition of the translation of David Levi (1742-1801), printed with Hebrew and English on facing pages. The haggadah integrates both the Ashkenazic and Sephardic customs and was intended for immigrants from Spain, Portugal and Ashkenaz. Instructions in Hebrew and in Ladino. With Ashkenazic translation in Hebrew letters of hymns: Adir Hu, Echad Mi Yodei’a and Chad Gadya.
This is the third or fourth haggadah ever printed with English translation.
David Levi’s also translated a six-volume set of prayer books and machzors. His precise translation was reused in many later editions, both in England and in America. The first haggadah printed in the United States (New York, 1837) was printed with his translation.
39 leaves, 7 pages, 20.5 cm. Yaari 254, Otzar HaHaggadot 371. Fine condition. Usage stains. Simple binding.
Service for the Two First Nights of Passover: in Hebrew and English . According to the custom of the German and Polish Jews, with eight copper-plates, relating to the service / carefully revised and corrected by Isaac Levi. London, Barnett press, [1843]. Special copy.
[1] page copper-plate, 71 [1] pp, among the leaves [4] pp copper-plates, 31 cm.
Haggadah with an English translation on facing pages and an Ashkenazic translation in block script of the liturgical poems, “Adir Hu,” “Echad mi Yode’ah” and “Chad Gadya.”
Special copy: engraving preceding the title page: “Picture of our rabbi the complete sage, the great genius Rabbi Shlomo son of the Admor, the great genius, our rabbi Tzvi ZTz”L. Av Beit Din of the holy community of Ashkenazim of London and the state. List of the dynasty of the geniuses Rabbi Heschell and Chacham Tzvi ZTz”L.” The Rev. Solomon Hirschell. The commonly found Haggadahs do not contain this portrait. A Haggadah with Rabbi Hirschell’s portrait was bibliographically listed according to this copy. See: Otzar HaSefer HaIvri HaMemuchshav listing no. 70844.
There are several books known which were printed when Rabbi Hirschell served as a rabbi and to which his portrait was added. However, Rabbi Hirschell passed away in October 1842 and this haggadah was printed in 1843! and it was not noted that he had passed away. Ya’ari 629, Otzar HaHaggadot 863, without Rabbi Hirschell’s portrait.
Moderate condition. Usage stains. Restoration in the upper part of the portrait.
Mashmiey Yeshuah on the Passover haggadah. By Rabbi Yitzchak Eizik Schorr, Av Beit Din of Bocşa, grandson and disciple of Rabbi Aharon Moshe (Taubes), Av Beit Din of Yas [Iaşi].
With the haggadah text. The chronogram indicates 1870, but it was actually printed in 1866.
The author [1836-1894] was the grandson and disciple of Rabbi Aharon Moshe Taubes, and published his works. He was the rabbi of Bocşa, Moldova. In 1869, his father-in-law, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Frenkel, Av Beit Din of Bucharest, asked him to help lead the city. He then became known as the “young rabbi.” In 1873, he was appointed to succeed his father-in-law. He authored a number of works, including Tiferet Yisrael [Lemberg, 1872]; Meorei Ohr [Lemberg, 1893], and more. He was a noted adjudicator to whom many turned with their questions. He was a chassid of Rabbi Yehoshua Rokeach of Belz. When he heard of his rabbi’s passing, he became ill and passed away a month later.
32 leaves. 21 cm. Otzar HaHaggadot 1268. Uncommon haggadah. The National Library does not have a complete copy. Fine condition. Usage stains.
Haggadah shel Pesach, per the Ashkenazic customs. Printed per the wish of … the grandsons of Shlomo Aharon HaKohen. Libantea press, Verona [1828].
25 leaves . 19 cm. Quality paper. Owner stamps in Hebrew and Italian. Yaari 490; Otzar HaHaggadot 679.
Fine condition. Minimal stains. Paper binding.
Uncommon haggadah with the laws in Hebrew and German in Tze’enah U’Re’ena letters. With many woodcut drawings.
14, [2] leaves, 30 cm. Ya’ari 139, Otzar HaHaggadot 219.
Fine condition. Aging and usage stains. Minimal professional completions in the white margins. The upper and lower page cuts of the leaves slightly damage the text in a number of places. Magnificent new binding.
Passover Haggadah with the Nofet Tzufim commentary by Rabbi Moshe Nechemiah Kahana. Bomberg press. Ya’ari 813; Otzar HaHaggadot 1101.
Includes the leaf with ‘Minchat Marcheshet’ – the rare dedication leaf preceding the title page. The dedication leaf was printed by the Bek press of Jerusalem, in 1861, with the addition of the recipient’s name and the name of the Haggadah, in the author’s handwriting.
The dedication leaf before us is exactly the copy that appears in the Winograd CD, serial number: 81040. Only one additional copy is known, which is in the National Library. Extremely rare.
Rabbi Moshe Nechemiah Kahana [1817-1887] was Rosh Av Beit Din of Petrovitch and Choslovitz in Belarus. One of the heads of the ‘Etz Chaim’ Yeshivah in Jerusalem and author of Netivot Shalom .
[1], 20 leaves. 22 cm. The upper margins of the first leaves are cropped. Fine condition. Wine stains. Tiny isolated tears in the white margins. New binding.
