TY - BOOK AU - Ochs,Vanessa L. TI - The Passover Haggadah: A Biography T2 - Lives of Great Religious Books SN - 9780691144986 AV - BM674.79 U1 - 296.4/5371 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Haggadot KW - Texts KW - History and criticism KW - RELIGION / Judaism / Rituals & Practice KW - bisacsh KW - 30 Minute Seder KW - Amsterdam Haggadah KW - Birds' Head Haggadah KW - Jewish Diaspora KW - Jewish family life KW - Jewish holidays KW - Judaica KW - Man's Search for Meaning KW - Midrash KW - Mishnah KW - Moses KW - Moshe Rosenberg KW - My People's Passover Haggadah KW - Passover recipes KW - Passover seder KW - Passover songs KW - Pesach KW - Robert Kopman KW - Sarajevo Haggadah KW - Talmud KW - The (unofficial) Hogwarts Haggadah KW - Viktor E. Frankl KW - Washington Haggadah KW - classic Passover songs KW - fourteenth day of Nisan KW - matzah KW - seder plate KW - seder recipes KW - ten plagues KW - the Exodus KW - the four questions KW - why is this night different from all other nights N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Introduction: The Life of the Haggadah --; Chapter 1. How the Haggadah Came to Be: Early Sources in the Bible, Tosefta, Mishnah, Talmud, and Midrash --; Chapter 2. On Becoming a Book: From the Earliest Haggadot to the Illuminated Haggadot of the Middle Ages --; Chapter 3. The Printed Haggadah and Its Enduring Conventions: A Text of One's Own --; Chapter 4. Twentieth- Century Variations: The Haggadah in American Jewish Movements, Israeli Kibbutzim, and American Third Seders --; Chapter 5. Haggadot of Darkness --; Chapter 6. The Haggadah of the Moment --; Acknowledgments --; Resources --; Glossary --; Notes --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - The life and times of a treasured book read by generations of Jewish families at the seder tableEvery year at Passover, Jews around the world gather for the seder, a festive meal where family and friends come together to sing, pray, and enjoy traditional food while retelling the biblical story of the Exodus. The Passover Haggadah provides the script for the meal and is a religious text unlike any other. It is the only sacred book available in so many varieties-from the Maxwell House edition of the 1930s to the countercultural Freedom Seder-and it is the rare liturgical work that allows people with limited knowledge to conduct a complex religious service. The Haggadah is also the only religious book given away for free at grocery stores as a promotion. Vanessa Ochs tells the story of this beloved book, from its emergence in antiquity as an oral practice to its vibrant proliferation today.Ochs provides a lively and incisive account of how the foundational Jewish narrative of liberation is remembered in the Haggadah. She discusses the book's origins in biblical and rabbinical literature, its flourishing as illuminated manuscripts in the medieval period, and its mass production with the advent of the printing press. She looks at Haggadot created on the kibbutz, those reflecting the Holocaust, feminist and LGBTQ-themed Haggadot, and even one featuring a popular television show, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Ochs shows how this enduring work of liturgy that once served to transmit Jewish identity in Jewish settings continues to be reinterpreted and reimagined to share the message of freedom for all UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691201528?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691201528 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780691201528.jpg ER -