BEN SHAHN HAGGADAH FOR PASSOVER Beautifully Illustrated First Edition HC

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BEN SHAHN HAGGADAH FOR PASSOVER Beautifully Illustrated First Edition HC :
$29.99

HAGGADAH for Passover Copied and Illustrated by Ben Shahn. With translation, introduction and historical notes by Cecil Roth. Little Brown & Co, Boston, MA, 1965. First Edition (US) First Printing. Oversize 9 by 12 inches hard cover with clear plastic dust wrapper, bound in tan cloth, stamped in gilt. 131 Numbered Pages, Plus Preface Pages, reverse-paginated. Strikingly illustrated by the great artist With 14 plates reproduced by seven-color lithography; also many other illustrations including ten drawings for the Had Gadya (An Only Kid), a folk song traditionally sung at the end of the Passover ceremony. Many of the illustrations in Shahn’s Haggadah were made around 1930. However, it was not until 1965 that the artist collecting the drawings and watercolors together to form the printed Haggadah. Book\'s in very nice condition, tight and clean, with typical age toning to the pages and about an inch square piece missing from the bottom of the plastic dust wrapper.

Ben Shahn was a Lithuanian-born American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content. Ben Shahn’s Haggadah (a Jewish text that presents the order of the Passover Seder) is a beautiful book that celebrates the traditions of Passover and highlights Shahn’s masterful skill as an artist and calligrapher. Shahn said that the work “reflects my memories of the Passover in my father’s house. It reflects my early impressions and feelings; the images that were always invoked in my fancy by the majestic and meaningful ritual.” The theme of struggle against oppression, which is central to the Passover story, was a common one in Shahn’s work. At the time the Haggadah illustrations were made, Shahn was also working on a set of illustrations depicting the Dreyfus Affair, in which a Jewish Frenchman was falsely accused of espionage and imprisoned for nearly five years in the infamous Devil’s Island penal colony in French Guiana. According to Rabbinesque Ben Shahn, \"The making of this book has proceeded much more in the manner of a painting perhaps, than a proper book. It reflects my memories of the Passover in my father\'s house. It reflects my early impressions and feelings; the images that were always invoked in my fancy by the majestic and meaningful ritual.\"

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