HAGGA

Ya’akov Boussidan

D A H

“…The

beginning of

this Haggadah

stems from a

childhood

memory,

the origin of

which is

rooted in my

community

and my family

in Egypt… “

The Kid

Locust

The Death of the Firstborns

Lice

Boils

The stories that

we grew up with

from the

Haggadah - the

Passover sacrifice

and the Exodus

from Egypt -

became real

The evident

homogeneity of these

pages absorbs the

force of its

conviction from

formalistic

heterogeneity, and

the bolt which

fastens the pages

together is the

unique artistic

personality of their

creator.

Binyamin Tammuz,

introduction to the Haggadah

Frogs

Frogs

In the etching

of the plague

of darkness,

the darkness

is interpreted

as an internal

blindness, not

external.

Darkness

“The more

rooted and

complex

the art is -

the more

universal its

content….”

Blood

Boussidan

interprets

freedom, which

is the very

essence of the

Haggadah, as an

inclusive

freedom. It

includes the

freedom not to

feel oneself

bound to any

viewpoints

where others

may have set

limits…

Hail

The Wicked Son

The CovenantPreparatory Drypoint

Boussidan worked on this Haggadah for seven years,

along with 30 students who worked in shifts around the clock.

The Covenant

Chad Gadya

Chad Gadya

An artistic

masterpiece, it

includes various

strands of

philosophical

thought

Bereshit (In the Beginning)

The Passover

Haggadah,

as Boussidan

sees it,

is the

narrative

of the birth

of the world

Creation of Waters

The first etchings

are related to the

six days of creation,

in which the

likeness of people

and landscapes and

animals are

captured, so to

speak, in their

primeval state.

Death is the first

state, as is the kid,

the fish and the

fowl.

Creation of Fish

Creation of Adam

Chad Gadya

Jerusalem the Golden

Boussidan’s Haggadah received international acclaim. Mentioned in

“Encyclopedia Judaica”, it has been exhibited worldwide – from the New

York Public Library and the London Jewish Museum,

to Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Ya’akov Boussidan is a painter, printer and calligrapher.

Received several awards, among them the Jesselson Prize for

Judaica from the Israel Museum and an honorary prize

at the Biennale in Monte Carlo.

Ya'akov Boussidan

8 Ha’afarsemon st.

Tzur Hadassah

Israel

boussidanart@gmail.com

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Copyright, 2011: Ya’akov Boussidan