The Exile→Redemption Haggadah

Leather bound on art paper The Exile→Redemption Haggadah, the latest addition to the Kitvei Kodesh Collection, is a powerful new visual interpretation of the Haggadah's age-old story of slavery and redemption. The Jerusalem artist Ilya Gefter - born in St. Petersburg and educated in North America, Italy and Jerusalem - has transmuted the words of the text, and his own astute observations of contemporary landscapes, onto huge, vellum-like pages throbbing with the experiences of the Jewish people through the millenia. Open the heavy, embossed leather cover of this extraordinary volume, turn the hand-made endpapers, and enter - through a classic Jerusalem doorway gently lit by a single electric lamp - a Haggadah unlike any other. A huge arm, outstretched from one page to another, looms over the shadowy figures of emigrants fleeing for their lives. Men's muscular bodies struggle against physical and spiritual duress. A woman draped in blue looks down pensively at her pregnant stomach. This