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Chabad Library Posts 1,000 Haggadot Online

A post to ha-Safran by YD draws our attention to the following press release:
The central Chabad-Lubavitch library in New York made 1,000 Passover Haggadahs, many of them rare, available on the Internet for browsing by the public. The Agudas Chasidei Chabad Library has one of the largest collections of the Passover orders of service in [...]

The Schechter Institute Acquires Two Haggadah Collections

The Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies has just announced the following two acquisitions:
1. The Stephen and Dedee Lovell Collection of Haggadot containing approximately 1200 Haggadot printed between 1670-1960.
2. The Morris and Beverly Baker Collection of Haggadot containing approximately 1300 Haggadot printed between 1960-2005.

Erev Pesach that falls on Shabbat

See R. David Golinkin’s responsum on the question of how one should conduct themselves when Erev Pesach falls on Shabbat. For more of his responsa that are on-line see here.

Wherefore Art Thou, Tam Tam?

Luckily I still have a box from who knows when…
Wherefore Art Thou, Tam Tam?: “

Instead of asking ‘why is this night different from all other nights,’ many seder participants will be asking ‘where are the Tam Tams’? Manischewitz broke the tragic news today that Tam Tams, their bite-sized matzo crackers, will not be available [...]

Preparing for Passover

As I take a break from cleaning for Passover, a few quick links to a relatively reasonable set of guidelines for Passover preparation. See this summary of instructions from R. Pinchas Scheinberg for cleaning and other Passover-related questions. I first saw this many years ago, and although I think that one can even [...]

Web Sites for Passover

JTS has a new website dedicated to Passover. It has some very high-quality scans from both MSS and early printed Haggadot. See also this site from the Yale University Library and this one from the Hebrew Union College. I also just saw a new book on the topic, Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval [...]