Canon

Next Year We Will Be Free

Non-Traditional Haggadot, 1945–1948

A National Anthem Comes Home

Naftali Herz Imber, “Hatikva,” 1908

A Moment of Reform

Seckel Isaac Fränkel and Meyer Israel Bresslau, Order of Public Prayer for the Sabbath and Festival Days, 1819 

Across the Wilderness

Orit, The Sacred Scriptures of Ethiopian Jews, 18th century

Gathering the Shards of Lurianic Kabbalah

Menahem di Lonzano, Sermons, 1610

A Royal Qur’an in Contest

Shirazi Qur’an, 16th century

Praying in Her Language

Women’s Siddur from Salonica (Seder Nashim), ca. 1550

Canonizing the Poets

Nur al-Din Jami, Gift of the Noble, 1484

Loyalty and Poetry

The Catalan Mahzor, 1336–1346

A Proud Minority in the Middle East

Arhuta Kadishta, Samaritan Pentateuch, 1215–1216

Trade, Translation, and the Holy Scripture

Peshitta – Syriac Christian Bible, 9th century