Presentation, Illustrating the Exodus: The Art of the Haggadah
The Haggadah guides participants through the Passover Seder and the story of the Israelites’ delivery from Egypt. Judaica librarian Jeanne-Marie Musto highlights different illustrated Haggadot from the Library’s Dorot Jewish Division—both handwritten and printed, dating from the 15th to the 19th centuries—and examines how their imagery and design evolved across generations. Founded in 1897, the Dorot Division holds over a quarter of a million books, manuscripts, periodicals, and other materials, making it one of the world’s leading collections of Hebraica and Judaica.