Subject: Haggadot

Book - Haggadah...."FORM OF SERVICE FOR THE TWO FIRST NIGHTS OF OF THE FEAST OF; PASSOVER WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION"... NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION; H. SALOLSKI, 53 DIVISION STREET..1880; INSCRIBED TO MARCUS FRIEDMAN ..AGE 11 ..3/29/1882..FORT WORTH; 1880 / 1859...note does not have date in Hebrew as do the later copies

This rare Early American Haggadah, owned by J.I. Cohen and later Isaiah Isacks, serves as a unique record of the Isacks family births. Inscribed with Cohen's ownership notation ("This Book belongs to J. I. Cohen bought at Bristol March 3, 1787"), it documents the births of Fanny, David, Rebecca, Sarah, and Hays Isacks in Richmond and Charlottesville, Virginia, between 1796 and 1803, as well as the death of their mother, Hetty Hays Isacks in 1803. The Haggadah provides valuable genealogical information supplementing Malcolm Stern's work and offers a rare example of a Haggadah used to record birth records, a practice noted as unprecedented by Dr. Sarna. The book's owners, J.I. Cohen and Isaiah Isacks, were prominent early American Jewish businessmen in Virginia, involved in commerce, land dealings, and philanthropy. Their business partnership financed Daniel Boone's explorations of Kentucky.

This is the second American edition of a Haggadah, containing the Passover Seder service in Hebrew and English on facing pages. Published in New York by J.M. Jackson in 1850, it's considered the first "pure" American edition, as it lacks attribution to a foreign translator unlike the 1837 edition. The book includes 80 pages and is bound in modern gilt-tooled calf with the original printed wrapper laid down. It shows some signs of wear, including ex-library markings and staining, and is missing 1-2 leaves.

This is a 33-page Haggadah published in Chicago in 1893. It is an adaptation of a German Haggadah by Dr. Leopold Stein, edited by I.S. Moses. The text is in both Hebrew and English, and it was originally issued in contemporary wrappers.

The Cowen Haggadah, a 128-page book issued by the Jewish Welfare Board of New York. Published in 1935. The book has paper covers.