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Passover haggadahs have long included pictures of rabbit hunts. This year shows us why.

JL;DR SUMMARY Illustrations of rabbit hunts have long appeared in Passover Haggadot, serving both a ritual mnemonic and a symbolic thematic function. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryPassoverPersecutionFreedomIllustrationsRitualHaggadahRabbit HuntsYaknehazMnemonics

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Germany
"editions dating back to medieval and early-modern Germany"
Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
"the Sarajevo Haggadah dated to 14th-century Spain"

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