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The museum specified that it was allocating funds both from the sale of a book about the haggadah as well as ticket sales to ...
Decision to donate proceeds linked to renowned Jewish manuscript in light of Gaza ‘genocide’ comes as the Balkan country sees ...
The museum’s move to send proceeds from a historic Sarajevo Haggadah to Palestinian Arabs while accusing Israel of genocide ...
The Sarajevo Haggadah is a famous medieval manuscript containing an illustrated version of the Passover Seder text, dated to around 1350 and believed to be from Barcelona.
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You can weaponize our Haggadah, but our story will prevail

Israel stance ignores the history and content of the very artifact it chooses to weaponize, just as it ignores the truth here ...
But now the Sarajevo Haggadah sits in limbo in the bankrupt National Museum on the Bosnian capital’s main drag. The museum closed its doors on October 4, 2012, after its employees went without ...
The Sarajevo Haggadah is considered one of the most valuable items of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is only displayed on special occasions, usually during Passovers.
To the untrained eye, the Sarajevo Haggadah might seem like something one would pass over on first glance. The cover is battered, the binding beat up; the thing looks like it’s been through the ...
A tale some 600 years old will turn another page Oct. 20, when the multimedia concert “The Sarajevo Haggadah: Music of the Book” has its D.C. premiere.
The “Partisan Haggadah” entered the Sarajevo community’s canon several years after the war. Altarac continued to write and entertain for Jewish holidays, writing yearly comedic musical ...
The origins of the Sarajevo Haggadah are shrouded in mystery. It is an exquisitely illuminated 14th-century codex, most probably smuggled out of Spain by Sephardic Jews following their expulsion ...
The haggadah, handwritten in Spain in the 14th century and brought to Sarajevo after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, has been owned by the museum since 1894.