Date: 1866 Country: Poland City: Warsaw or Koenigsberg
This early Hassidic Haggadah contains the important kabbalistic commentaries of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady (ca. 1745–1812), Hasidic leader and founder of the Lubavitch movement as well as that of his disciple Aaron ben Moses, ha-Levi Horowitz, of Staroselye 1766-1828.
Collection ID: CAT_042
Date: 1905 Country: Poland City: Podgorze
In this volume, the printer, Saul Hananiah Deutscher, proudly states that he has compiled an unusually large group of commentaries on the Haggadah from 238 sources. He informatively lists each one of the sources on the first two pages of this book. As Prof. Yerushalmi points out, 238 commentaries must have been something of a record – even if they are each represented only by short examples.
Collection ID: CAT_048
Date: 1928 Country: Poland City: Warsaw
The Polish text of this illustrated Haggadah was translated by Chanan Netzer and the Polish introduction and commentaries were written by Chaim Aron Kaplan (1880–1942) a pioneering pedagogue of Hebrew in Warsaw who perished in the Holocaust. Kaplan began a personal diary as early as 1933; however, at the beginning of World War II, he decided to devote all his efforts to preserving a record for posterity of the calamities befalling the Jews. Rediscovered after the war, Kaplan’s diaries are a vastly important record of the experiences of the author and the ghetto community.
Collection ID: CAT_061
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