Collection ID: CAT_039

Date: 1850

Country: Iraq

City: Mosul


ThIs Haggada was written with the standard text in Hebrew and then translated verse for verse into Judeo-Arabic. Judeo-Arabic is a continuum of Arabic dialects spoken by Jews living in the Arab world. The scribe, Rabbi Shalom Gabbi, who signs his name on folio 6v, incorporated many laws and customs pertaining to the Seder night into the volume. He also added little-known liturgical hymns for Passover, apparently recited in the region where he lived.