📄 הגדה לסדר פסח | The Ritual of the Seder and the Agada of the English Jews Before the Expulsion (1287)

Jacob b. Jehuda of London, the author of that valuable contribution to the literary side of Anglo-Jewish history, the Talmudical compendium Etz Chaim, so providentially rescued and preserved for us, never dreamt, when he noted down, in the year 1287, the Ritual and Agada of the Seder Nights according to English usage, that he was fixing a permanent picture of what was doomed to destruction, and was recording not a mere portion of the liturgy, but a page of Jewish history. Faithfully copying his great prototype, Maimonides, the English Chazan also embodied in his work the texts of the Recitations on the Seder Nights in the form customary among his countrymen, and appended the correlated rites according to Minhag England. . . .

Categories: Liturgical traditions, Haggadot for the Seder Leil Pesaḥ

Tags: 13th century C.E., 51st century A.M., English Jewry, Nusaḥ Anglia, Nusaḥ Ashkenaz

Contributor(s): Dávid Kaufmann and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

📖 סדר הגדה של פסח | Liber Rituum Paschalium, a haggadah in Latin translation by Johann Stephan Rittangel (1644)

Johann Stephan Rittangel (1606-1652) was a Christian Hebraist and Professor of Oriental Languages at the University of Königsberg (Prussia) from 1640 till his death. Born Jewish, he converted to Christianity (to Catholicism and afterward to Calvinism, and then Lutheranism). After making a translation of the Sefer Yetsirah into Latin in 1642, he made this translation of the Passover Haggadah. In the Haggadah, Rittangel included musical scores for two piyyutim popularly sung during the final course of the Passover seder: “Adir Hu” and “Ki Lo Na’eh.” . . .

Categories: Haggadot for the Seder Leil Pesaḥ

Tags: 17th century C.E., 55th century A.M., Christian Hebraism, Latin translation, Needing Transcription

Contributor(s): Johann Stephan Rittangel (Latin translation) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

📖 סדר הגדה של פסח עברי-כּורדי | Seder Haggadah shel Pesaḥ (Ivri-Kurdi), a Passover seder haggadah for Kurdish Jews in Hebrew and Aramaic (1959)

A Passover Seder Haggadah in Hebrew and Aramaic (or Kurdish, as stated on the title page) published in Israel for the wave of Kurdish-Jewish immigrants from Iraq and other eastern countries. . . .

Categories: Haggadot for the Seder Leil Pesaḥ

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Aramaic translation, Israel, Kurdish Jewry

Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

📄 The First Battlestar Galactica Seder Haggadah [for Passover] (2008)

With gratitude to the One True God, and to the original creators, this is a derivation of the “Battlestar Seder Haggadah” prepared by David “Razor” Lieberman, Alison “Fat Six” Ogden, and Mary “Actual” Bruch, for “A Seder on Battlestar Galactica,” an event held on Saturday, 26 April 2008, on Earth. The seder was first posted to galacticahaggadah.com and later to battlestarseder.org under a GNU Free Document License. Both of these domains having gone to ruin, the Haggadah was thankfully preserved on the Wayback Machine thanks to the Internet Archives. I resurrected the Haggadah, adding the following: 1) alternate blessings for crypto-Cylons, 2) संस्कृतम् sourcetext in Sanskrit script along with annotation indicating the source of the prayer/mantra included, 3) a short prayer that Priestess Elosha recites at the very beginning of the funeral scene near the end of the miniseries. –Aharon Varady . . .

Categories: Haggadot for the Seder Leil Pesaḥ

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Battlestar Galactica, crossovers, parody, Prayers of Cylons, Prayers of Kobol

Contributor(s): David "Razor" Lieberman, Alison "Fat Six" Ogden, Mary "Actual" Bruch and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)