At 18:10 03/23/04, sdubin wrote: >I have a patron who is interested in finding out if the haggadot used in the >Southern states before the Civil War were different in any way from the >haggadot used there after the Emancipation Proclamation. Any idea where I >could look?
I did a quick search for any haggadot printed in the US before 1865. I found only one. Seder Hagadah shel Pesah : 'im tirgum Ashkenazi = Die Pessach Hagada. Imprint New York : H. Frank, 1850. and one shortly after the war <http://norman.spertus.edu:4505/ALEPH/KNAD6E2H31VFVPUQ7I8RNA4RNR7KQN2F6KVXDLKNIUXN93LI2D-00391/FIND-ACC/000079893>Wise, Isaac Mayer, 1819-1900. Hymns, psalms and prayers, in English and German by Isaac M. Wise and others. Imprint Cincinnati, Bloch & Co. Publishers and Printers [c1868] Notice that both were publishing with a German translation. Neither of these are in my collection. Since prayer books and haggadot were not printed in this country much before the early 1900's, I doubt that one could find any differences in before and after the Civil War. Hebrew Publishing Company Published their first haggadah in 1912. If you want to be sure then use a more comprehensive search. DS Daniel Stuhlman Chicago, IL 60645 ddstuhlman @ earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~ddstuhlman/liblob.htm =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
