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This Haggadah was produced in the city of Candia (now Heraklion), on the island of Crete, which was at the time under Venetian rule. The Haggadah follows the Passover seder according to the Romaniote…
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Artist Unknown
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Candia, Republic of Venice (Heraklion, Greece)
Date:
1500–1549
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This late seventeenth-century manuscript contains a full copy of the text of the Ardashir-nāmah (The Book of Ardashir/Ahasuerus), an epic poem by the fourteenth-century Jewish Persian writer Shāhin-i…
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ca. 1680
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CharactersMaenoyakh, an old citizen of BethlehemShulamis, his daughterAvisholom, a young hero descended from the Maccabees.
Avisholom
I shall not leave here until I have rested
Jerusalem…
Contributor:
Abraham Goldfaden
Places:
Iasi, Kingdom of Romania (Iasi, Romania)
Briarcliff Manor, United States of America
Date:
1881