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The Shohet (from “Had Gadya”)
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The violence of the Passover song “Had Gadya” (“Who Knows One”) clearly spoke to this illustrator’s sense of horror following World War I.

Contributor:

Menachem Birnbaum

Places:

Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1920

Subjects:

Holidays, Passover, Animals, Violence

Categories:

Cartooning & graphic art, Print & book culture
Illustration of man in a bloody apron holding a bloody knife as he begins to slaughter a large animal.
Haggadah
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This page from a Haggadah produced in Amsterdam is an example of the work of Joseph Ben David Leipnik, a prominent eighteenth-century scribe and artist known particularly for his illustrated Haggadahs…

Contributor:

Joseph Leipnik

Places:

Holy Roman Empire (Altona, Germany)

Date:

1737

Subjects:

Haggadah, Holidays, Passover, Illuminated manuscripts, Ritual objects

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art, Ritual Objects
Manuscript page with Hebrew writing on top and illustration below of three central figures in hats and holding swords, next to a horse, camel, dogs, and two tents, with people in the left background and mountains beyond.