Spotlighting Passover: the earliest printed Haggadah, c.1480 from Guadalajara (Iberia) and now housed in the National Library of Israel, is digitized online

This is the earliest printed Haggadah, the only copy in the world. Printed in square, unpunctuated letters only 12 years prior to the exile of the Jews from Spain, this Haggadah is unique evidence of the high technological level of printing among medieval Spanish Jews.


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Hannah Teddy Schachter (April 21, 2022). Spotlighting Passover: the earliest printed Haggadah, c.1480 from Guadalajara (Iberia) and now housed in the National Library of Israel, is digitized online. medievalJewishStudiesNow! Retrieved April 20, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/rhn2


About Hannah Teddy Schachter

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Doctoral Fellow of the Israel Science Foundation-funded research group "Contending with Crises: Jews in Fourteenth-Century Europe" led by Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten. While my doctoral research explores the relationships between Jews and royal women--specifically queens--in 13th-century France, my other research projects consider Jewish-Christian encounters in medieval processions, dance and song, as well as costume in France and the German Kingdom during the Middle Ages.