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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Please - need help with interpreting this image - thanks -
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:45:39 -0400 (EDT)
Need help with picture interpretation. The following images are from a Machzor for Passover, published in 1929 in Vilna, Poland; as you know, the fate of the Jewish community there was disasterous, just a few years later. The book is published by Rozenkranz i Szryftzecer and contains several pages in the beginning which may or may not have been added to the original - they seem insertions done at the time of the printing and binding but I'm not sure. (In fact the volume is an odd compilation of sorts; the Haggadah per se is only a small part of it.) There's a picture, which is reproduced below. It's a terrifying image of a seder (the Hebrew title is HaSeder), a premonition of things to come. It may be a contemporary image of a pogrom, an odd image of violence for a holiday of joy and salvation (which 'salve' perhaps refers to - but then there are armed men coming in - in fact, what _does_ salve mean in this context?). I found this along with a collection of other Vilna books at Sam Weller's store in Salt Lake City. Any suggestions or information you might have about the image would be greatly appreciated. And thanks in advance - http://www.alansondheim.org/Haggadah8.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/Haggadah7.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/Haggadah6.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/Haggadah5.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/Haggadah4.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/Haggadah3.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/Haggadah2.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/Haggadah1.jpg Thanks again, Alan - by the way below are images from Utah related to Second Life texturing - including a short video - http://www.alansondheim.org/watr.mov http://www.alansondheim.org/ solitude jpgs to access the Odyssey exhibition The Accidental Artist: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/48/12/22
