The Exile→Redemption Haggadah N.0011
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The Exile→Redemption Haggadah, the latest addition to the Kitvei Kodesh Collection, is a powerful new visual interpretation of the Haggadah's age-old story of slavery and redemption. The Jerusalem artist Ilya Gefter - born in St. Petersburg and educated in North America, Italy and Jerusalem - has transmuted the words of the text, and his own astute observations of contemporary landscapes, onto huge, vellum-like pages throbbing with the experiences of the Jewish people through the millenia.
The Exile→Redemption Haggadah is a perfect facsimile of the artist's unique masterpiece , virtually indistinguishable from the pages of original paintings and hand letter script by Ilya Gefter and Yakov Daniel. On the scale of a medieval tome, it is produced on the heavy, textured, deckle-edged paper of fine manuscripts and printed in a limited edition of 180. Its 64 huge leaves are stitched into exquisitely tooled and embossed leather bindings, then preserved in a presentation box. Every copy is printed individually and, as an artist's book, is numbered and authenticated by the signatures of the artist, scribe, and publisher. An additional Connoisseur's Edition of 90 is enhanced with some 60 additional pages featuring the preliminary sketches and drawings which appear in the original artists' book
