Asta 97 Boutique Sale Featuring Passover Hagadot and Maps of Eretz Israel
Da Kestenbaum & Company
31.3.22
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77,141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205, Stati Uniti

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(HAGADAH). Hagadah shel Pesach - The Institution of Passover. Poona, 1874. Prepared by the Brothers Moses Jacob and ...

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(HAGADAH). Hagadah shel Pesach - The Institution of Passover. Poona, 1874. Prepared by the Brothers Moses Jacob and Aaron David Talker

Title in Hebrew, Marathi and English. Hebrew and translation into Marathi translation on facing pages. Celebrated illustrations depicting local Bene Israel custom on opening nine pages. This copy with extended Marathi introduction.
ff. 2, (9); p. (1); ff. 5-44; pp.45-50, (5). Lightly browned throughout, few expert paper repairs. Later patterned boards. 8vo. Yudlov 1437.
Poona: Vital Sakharam Agnihorty 1874

Unlike the earlier Bombay Hagadah (1846), whose “illustrations were still closely linked to their Amsterdam prototypes, those in the Poona Hagadah have managed to drift into a sphere of their own. Even as they retain the basic pattern, they are now palpably Indian in tone and detail” (Yerushalmi, 107).


Particularly distinct is the illustration depicting the preparation and baking of the Matzoth for Passover. The upper panel shows the men of the Bene-Israel community, the lower panel their female counterparts. Both are in distinctive native dress and sitting in the classic Indian squatting, or lotus position. See Israel Museum Catalogue, The Jews of India (1995) p. 25. An exotic, extraordinary illustrated Hagadah.