The Washington Haggadah

Joel ben Simeon

Introduction by David Stern

Product Details

HARDCOVER

$39.95 • £31.95 • €36.00

ISBN 9780674051171

Publication Date: 04/11/2011

Trade

248 pages

6-7/8 x 10 inches

38-page color facsimile, 11 color illustrations

Belknap Press

World

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David Stern is Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature at Harvard University.

Katrin Kogman-Appel is Evelyn Metz Memorial Research Chair in Art, Department of the Arts, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

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