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The Sarajevo Haggadah is an illuminated manuscript that contains the illustrated traditional text of the Passover Haggadah which accompanies the Passover Seder.It belongs to a group of Spanish-Provençal Sephardic Haggadahs, originating "somewhere in northern Spain", [1] most likely the city of Barcelona, around 1350, and is one of the oldest of its kind in the world.
The Sarajevo Haggadah, a 600-year-old Jewish manuscript, and one of Bosnia's most prized relics, is housed in a high-security glass case. [26] The manuscript, handwritten on bleached calfskin, dates to the once-thriving Jewish community in Spain and describes events ranging from the Creation to the Jewish exodus from ancient Egypt to the death ...
Derviš Korkut (5 May 1888 – 28 August 1969) was a Bosnian Muslim scholar and humanist. A librarian and curator of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, he is famous for saving the Sarajevo Haggadah from the Nazis and Ustashas during the Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia, a Nazi German puppet state in Yugoslavia during World War II.
Geraldine Brooks wrote an article for The New Yorker that provides more details about the Sarajevo Haggadah and its real-life rescuers, especially Dervis Korkut, who hid it from the Nazis. It also explains that Lola, the young Jewish guerrilla fighter in the novel, is based on a real person named Mira Papo, who was sheltered by Dervis Korkut ...
Old Hrid hydro-electric power station in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Movable property: Sarajevo Haggadah: National Museum of BiH: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Movable property: Zmijanje embroidery: Zmijanje: Zmijanje embroidery – Zmijanje village, Manjača mountain i Bosnia and Herzegovina. Movable property: Portrait of Bishop fra ...
Pages in category "Culture in Sarajevo" The following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total. ... Sarajevo Film Festival; Sarajevo Haggadah;
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Sarajevo Haggadah; Z. Zenica Synagogue This page was last edited on 22 February 2021, at 02:35 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...