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One of the original artwork treasures
of the Jewish European culture in the Enlightenment period,
found in its complete form after the Holocaust,
brought to Israel and given over to the Moshe
Fogel Collection
"Treasures of the Passover Haggadah".
The original Basel Haggadah was edited and revised
by
Rabbi Shlomo Kashilsberg in 1816
for the well-known Wilhelm Haas Press of Basel in Switzerland.
The Haggadah includes 24 artistic drawings,
delicate wooden engraving, set in a unique and impressive style
and decorative framework,
the first Ashkenazi translation written in Hebrew letters.
The original edition of the Basel Haggadah is
now being published
fully coloured, to mark the new period in the history of the Jewish
people,
which began with the first Zionist Congress
held in August 1897, in Basel, Switzerland,
initiated by Dr. Benyamin Zeev Herzl, the visionary of the State
of Israel.
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