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The Monk's Haggadah

The Story of a Remarkable 15th C. Manuscript and the Story of its Scholarly Discovery. David Stern, Harvard University

3/30/2017
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Rockefeller 001
Intended Audience(s): Public
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A fifteenth century codex housed in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich contains a beautifully illustrated, hand-written Passover Haggadah with a lengthy Latin prologue on the meaning of Passover written by a contemporaneous monk. The lecture will describe the truly unusual, almost shocking features of the Haggadah, discuss the special status of the prologue as the earliest known Christian ethnography of Jewish culture, and tell of how a group of contemporary scholars have reconstructed its history.

This event is free and open to the public!

For more information, contact:
Carol Bean-Carmody
carol.a.bean-carmody@dartmouth.edu
Permanent URL to this event: https://jewish.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=44165

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