Rec­om­mend­ed Reading

The Urban Fam­i­ly Passover Haggadah

Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
March 17, 2011

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter

Remem­ber Alef Bet­ty?

To fur­ther her explo­ration of ​“Mod­ern Hebrew Arts,” Tsil­li Pines has cre­at­ed The Urban Fam­i­ly Passover Hag­gadah:

Old tra­di­tions, new per­spec­tives. A mod­ern design with Eng­lish text, as well as Hebrew bless­ings and transliterations.

64 page soft­cov­er book with per­fect bind­ing, glossy col­or cov­er, and 1‑color interior.

Read about the sto­ry behind the Hag­gadah here (includ­ing the design!) and check out blog posts on Hag­gadot she col­lect­ed dur­ing her research:

Maxwell House Haggadah

Jacob Wexler Haggadah

Pre-order your copy (and view sam­ple pages) here.

$14/​copy

$59/​set of 5

$89/​set of 10


Orig­i­nal­ly from Lan­cast­er, Penn­syl­va­nia, Nao­mi is the CEO of Jew­ish Book Coun­cil. She grad­u­at­ed from Emory Uni­ver­si­ty with degrees in Eng­lish and Art His­to­ry and, in addi­tion, stud­ied at Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege Lon­don. Pri­or to her role as exec­u­tive direc­tor and now CEO, Nao­mi served as the found­ing edi­tor of the JBC web­site and blog and man­ag­ing edi­tor of Jew­ish Book World. In addi­tion, she has over­seen JBC’s dig­i­tal ini­tia­tives, and also devel­oped the JBC’s Vis­it­ing Scribe series and Unpack­ing the Book: Jew­ish Writ­ers in Conversation.

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