Librarian Jeanne-Marie Musto explores how different versions of the Haggadah, both in manuscript and printed forms, shaped one another over time.

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The Haggadah guides participants through the Passover Seder and the story of the Israelites’ delivery from Egypt. Judaica librarian Jeanne-Marie Musto highlights different illustrated Haggadot from the Library’s Dorot Jewish Division—both handwritten and printed, dating from the 15th to the 19th centuries—and examines how their imagery and design evolved across generations. Founded in 1897, the Dorot Division holds over a quarter of a million books, manuscripts, periodicals, and other materials, making it one of the world’s leading collections of Hebraica and Judaica.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Jeanne-Marie Musto is an art historian and Judaica librarian in the Dorot Jewish Division of The New York Public Library. Before joining NYPL, she taught art history at Sewanee and Hofstra universities. She received her MA in History of Decorative Art from Bard Graduate Center and PhD in History of Art from Bryn Mawr College. She publishes and presents on historiographical topics with regard to art, Judaica, and book history. She regularly organizes conference sessions on these topics and serves as the Bibliographical Society of America’s liaison to the College Art Association and as chair of its Liaisons Committee.

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Courtesy Jeanne-Marie Musto