When the Sarajevo Haggadah first went on permanent display at Bosnia’s national history museum in 2002, it was seen as a ...

National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina says profits from its sale of a publication about a historic Haggadah will be ...

The Sarajevo Haggadah is a famous medieval manuscript containing an illustrated version of the Passover Seder text, dated to around 1350 and believed to be from Barcelona.

The museum’s move to send proceeds from a historic Sarajevo Haggadah to Palestinian Arabs while accusing Israel of genocide ...

But now the Sarajevo Haggadah sits in limbo in the bankrupt National Museum on the Bosnian capital’s main drag. The museum closed its doors on October 4, 2012, after its employees went without ...

To the untrained eye, the Sarajevo Haggadah might seem like something one would pass over on first glance. The cover is battered, the binding beat up; the thing looks like it’s been through the ...

A tale some 600 years old will turn another page Oct. 20, when the multimedia concert “The Sarajevo Haggadah: Music of the Book” has its D.C. premiere.

The origins of the Sarajevo Haggadah are shrouded in mystery. It is an exquisitely illuminated 14th-century codex, most probably smuggled out of Spain by Sephardic Jews following their expulsion ...

The “Partisan Haggadah” entered the Sarajevo community’s canon several years after the war. Altarac continued to write and entertain for Jewish holidays, writing yearly comedic musical ...

The haggadah, handwritten in Spain in the 14th century and brought to Sarajevo after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, has been owned by the museum since 1894.

The 14th-century Haggadah went on display Monday in Bosnia in a secure, climate-controlled room in the Sarajevo National Museum. “Tonight the odyssey of the Sarajevo Haggadah has come to an end.

The Partisan Haggadah entered the Sarajevo community’s canon several years after the war. Altarac continued to write and entertain for Jewish holidays, writing yearly comedic musical revues for ...