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Stated First Edition. 'With a Commentary, Interpretive Translation, Introduction, Notes, References and Bibliography.' Once listed, this will be the Only signed copy for sale on the Internet. And it is a very special book because it is signed by one Rabbi and scholar to another Rabbi and scholar. The signed inscription is on the front end paper. It reads 'To Dr. Alan Miller, With the cordial greetings and best wishes of the author and translator, Dr. Jacob Freedman, July, 1974.' I purchased this book some years ago directly from Dr. Miller at the apartment of he and his wife in Manhattan. In 1962, Dr. Miller, who at one time was the rabbi of the South West Essex Reform Synagogue in London, took over the post for rabbi of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism in New York. The synagogue is the founding house of worship of the Jewish Reconstructionist movement, established in 1922 by Professor Mordecai M. Kaplan. Dr. Miller was also a psychoanalyst and a scholar. Dr. Jacob Freedman served as Rabbi at Temple Beth-El in Fall River, Mass., during the 1930s and early 1940s, and later at congregations in Pittsfield, Brookline, Springfield, and Stratford, Connecticut. He received a BA from Columbia University in Greek, where he was awarded the Romaine Prize, remaining there for an MA before studying to become a rabbi and master of Hebrew Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Active in the Menorah Club at Columbia and Harvard, when he studied there briefly, Jacob Freedman was involved in the Zionist student movement and other Jewish student activities, serving as adviser to Jewish students and as director of the Jewish Student House at Columbia as a post-graduate. The Haggadah is in very nice condition. You can see the blue covers in the photos. They look clean. There is a bump/crease at each of the two top corners. There's a little crinkling and bending at the spine ends. The gilt lettering on the front and spine looks very good. The book is square and the spine is straight. The binding is very solid from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. The cover edges and corners are in very good shape, no rubbing. The top page edge has a few small, light tan spots. The middle and bottom page edges are perfectly clean. The interior of the book is in very nice condition. In the main, the pages are very clean. There is a 1" x 0.5" tan stain at the top corner of two facing pages, far from the print. A light bit of this stain can be seen at the top corner of one side of the page preceding and at the top corner of one side of the two pages following. There are also a total of four other tan spots, these very tiny, over the four pages I've just referenced. There's also a speck of a tan spot just off the top edge of the last page of the Index, and a tiny tan spot in the same place just off the top edge of both sides of the blank rear end paper. The rear inside cover has three small tan spots just off its top edge. There aren't any significant creases on any the pages. The last page of the Index and the blank rear end paper each have a tiny crease at their top corner. There are no markings in the Haggadah. There are no attachments of any kind. And the Rabbi's signed inscription is the only writing to be found anywhere in the book. Seller Inventory # 004885
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Polychrome Historical Haggadah For Passover ...
Publisher: Jacob Freedman Liturgy Research Foundation, Springfield, Massachusetts
Publication Date: 1974
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Illustrations in color from Rear Medieval Haggadah Manuscripts
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
