Date: 1837-1838 Country: United States City: Philadelphia
Comprising the First Haggadah printed in America with a translation by an American Jew. Leeser's comprehensive prayer book was the very first American publication containing the liturgy for the entire year. It contains the original Hebrew text and a complete English translation. The Haggadah, found in volume 5 of this set, represents a new translation with a new spirit, entirely conceived for American Jews, thus making this the first truly American Haggadah.
Collection ID: CAT_032
Date: 1887 Country: United States City: New York
An edition of the first illustrated Haggadah in America to show influences of the new environment. An American family seated at the seder table presents a new version of the depiction of the "four sons" described in the haggadah. The Wise Son, kippah (or skullcap) on head, is looking at the haggadah before him. The Wicked Son, bare-headed, his chair tilted back, is smoking a cigarette.
Collection ID: CAT_044
Date: 1910 Country: United States City: Washington D.C.
The First Hebrew Book Printed in Washington D.C. The author of this commentary on the Haggadah, Rabbi Gedaliah Silverstone (1871-1944) was a prominent Orthodox rabbi and author in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century. Upon his arrival in America in 1905, he was appointed rabbi of the Combined Congregations of Washington, D.C. This volume is both the first book he published in America as well as the first Hebrew book published in Washington D.C.
Collection ID: CAT_049
Date: 1911 Country: United States City: New York
Lillie Cowen (1851 -1939) was the first woman to translate the Haggadah. In 1904, she published the Cowen, it was the first mass-produced adaptation of the Haggadah in modern American vernacular and the most popular Haggadah in the United States in the first quarter of the twentieth century. The original text contained the score for “America” and the Star Spangled Banner”. This edition of 1911 also included an early version of Hatikvah; Cowen was both deeply American and a staunch Zionist.
Collection ID: CAT_050
Date: 1928 Country: United States City: New York
This haggadah was illustrated by LOLA, a pseudonym for the artist Leon Israel (1887-1955). Leon Israel was a cartoonist for the Jewish Daily Forward and was also the major original artistic contributor to the weekly Groyser Kundes, the popular satirical magazine in the Yiddish language (published in New York, 1909-27). Israel was born in Pinsk, Russia and came to the USA in 1905. He was a highly regarded artist in the fields of Jewish art, theatrical productions and newspaper circles.
Collection ID: CAT_059
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