Passover Haggadah written in Judeo-Arabic

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.

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