Vanessa L. Ochs

Vanessa L. Ochs

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    An early 15th century manuscript copied around 1430 in square Ashkenazic script. The longest seder: A story of Haggadah The Haggadah, the text for the Passover seder meal, is supposed to teach the story of Exodus, primarily to the young. It does that poorly, for it assumes that readers are so well versed in the story that they’d prefer to dwell instead on ancient comm... Read More