Introduction: The Life of the Haggadah

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Introduction: The Life of the Haggadah 1
5. Chapter 1. How the Haggadah Came to Be: Early Sources in the Bible, Tosefta, Mishnah, Talmud, and Midrash 18
6. Chapter 2. On Becoming a Book: From the Earliest Haggadot to the Illuminated Haggadot of the Middle Ages 40
7. Chapter 3. The Printed Haggadah and Its Enduring Conventions: A Text of One’s Own 67
8. Chapter 4. Twentieth- Century Variations: The Haggadah in American Jewish Movements, Israeli Kibbutzim, and American Third Seders 90
9. Chapter 5. Haggadot of Darkness 113
10. Chapter 6. The Haggadah of the Moment 139
11. Acknowledgments 175
12. Resources 177
13. Glossary 179
14. Notes 181
15. Index 197