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Wolloch Holocaust Haggadah Ltd Edition /one of 290 made/Featured at YadVashem
$ 1420.32
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Description
Full 1984 Edition including 56 hand drawn silkscreensfeatures full-page illustrations by American artist David Wander and illuminated calligraphy by Rabbi Yonah Weinrib featured in Museum collections all over the world.
Each page is
22.05 x 16.54 inches
In 1981 the Wolloch Family commissioned a Haggadah, and asked their cousin David Wander to do the illustrations and calligrapher Yonah Weinrib to inscribe it. This Haggadah Edition has been exhibited all over the country in museums.
This is a Beautiful limited edition portfolio that includes 56 hand drawn silkscreens and photo lithographic images that bridge the traditional Passover story with the events of the Holocaust. The illustrations juxtapose the Star of David against the yellow stars that the Nazis required Jews to wear. The Red Sea is swimming with drowning Egyptians and swastikas and another page with text about the ten plagues is illustrated with the burning smokestack at a concentration camp.
Only 290 of the oversized portfolios with numbered color prints were produced. Nine were given to the artists, 31 distributed to the family and others were donated to major libraries and religious institutions. A copy now sits in the Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collection Library at Duke University and another at the White House. This is a rare opportunity to own this collector's item.
After being completed in 1984, it was published in bound-book form for the benefit of Yad Vashem. Copies of the original portfolio, containing 56 hand-printed pages, have been presented to major libraries and collections of Judaica.
The worldwide odyssey of the Wolloch Haggadah includes a presentation to President Ronald Reagan at the White House on July 24, 1985; a fundraiser for the International Society of Yad Vashem, exhibited at Yad Vashem and 92nd Street Y; Boston, Columbia, Duke, Harvard, Stanford Universities; Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY; Hartford Seminary; Hebrew Union College; Hillel, University of Colorado; University of Pennsylvania; Israel Museum; University of Vermont; Yeshiva University, Washington Heights; West Point and United States Holocaust Museum, Washington, D.C.