HUC’s Heller Museum exhibits prints based on the Passover song about a little goat and the disasters that follow in its wake. (New York Jewish Week) — “Had Gadya,” the playful song about a destructive ...

Used to tell the story on the night of Passover That his rabbi the Gaon Chatam Sofer used to tell on the night of Passover That the Gaon Rav Yonatan Eybeschutz of blessed memory Used to raise many ...

Acclaimed artist Frank Stella grew up in an Italian Catholic immigrant family in Malden, Massachusetts. But a number of his works have Jewish themes — including his colorful illustrations of “Had ...

Had Gadya, the playful, threatening and ultimately reassuring song that ends many Seder evenings among Ashkenazi Jews, has a long history in the Haggada. It emerged from German folk songs to be first ...

Photos courtesy of HUC-JIR. American artist Frank Stella’s “Had Gadya” series has arrived at the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in Los Angeles. This vivid collection of ...

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Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...

As the one and only major Jewish celebration centered on the home and not the synagogue, the Seder must walk a fine line: It has to be equally compelling for young and old alike. We see this tension ...

In 1918-19, the artist El Lissitzky illustrated the Had Gadya in paintings. Had Gadya (A Kid's Tale) is a folk song that follows Seder, the religious meal served in Jewish homes to begin the Passover ...

Illustrations After El Lissitzky's Had Gadya is a portfolio of twelve prints that Frank Stella created after he saw El lissitzky's 1919 gouaches illustrating each line of the traditional Jewish ...

Had Gadya/ The Only Kid: Facsimile of El Lissitsky's Edition of 1919, edited by Arnold J. Band, contains just what the title promises: the folksong ""Had Gadya,"" which is traditionally sung at ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. During the civil war following the Bolshevik Revolution, the art school of the small Belarusian town Vitebsk became ...