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In 1489, a magnificent illustrated Passover Haggadah was sent as a
bequest to the Monastery of Saint Quirinus at Tegernsee in southern
Germany. Shortly afterwards, the monastery’s librarian sent the
book to a Dominican friar named Erhard von Pappenheim, a Hebraist
and expert on Jewish practice, and asked him to write a prologue.
In response, Erhard wrote a remarkable treatise that is arguably
the earliest quasi-ethnographic account of Jewish practice in early
modern Europe and an extraordinary window onto a fifteenth-century
Christian’s perception of Jews and Judaism. The Monk’s Haggadah
brings together a facsimile edition of the codex in color, a
critical edition of the Latin text of Erhard’s prologue, an
English translation of the Latin text, and a translation of the
Hebrew text of the Haggadah. Additionally, the volume’s editors
provide historical context, explore the codicology, illustration,
and patronage of the volume, and describe its Christian theological
background. An absolutely unique document, this Haggadah stands to
change many long-held conceptions about Jewish-Christian relations
in the late Middle Ages and early modernity.
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