Obj. ID: 35826
Jewish printed books  Hagadah, oder Erzählung von Israels Auszug aus Egypten, Cologne, 1838

This text was prepared by William Gross:

Passover Haggadah, with German translation and sheet music for piyutim. Kצln (Germany), 1838. Two title pages. The second one is illustrated. Hebrew and German page opposite page. Sheet music for Hodu, Adir Bimlucha, Chasal Siddur Pesach, Adir Hu, Echad Mi Yode'ah and Chad Gadya.
The special interest of this Haggadah lies in its musical appendix, which gives the score for some of the songs and hymns. These are described as “the old music which has come down to us through tradition, and some newly composed melodies.” It is thus one of the few Haggadot that contains printed music.
The composer-arranger was Isaac Offenbach (1779-1850), who settled in Cologne in 1816 and became cantor of the community a decade later. His son Jacques (Jacob) Offenbach achieved great fame on the stages of Paris, composing such works as Orpheus in the Underworld, La Vie Parisienne, and Tales of Hoffman.
The Haggadah’s lithographed frontispiece is also unusually illustrated, showing a pseudo-Gothic archway with the four figures of Moses, Aaron, David and Solomon. A biblical vignette showing Moses approaching the Red Sea (?) appears in the lower half.
According to Freidberg (History of Hebrew Printing in Central Europe, Antwerp 1935, p. 33) only the title page was printed in Köln whereas the rest of the book was printed in Hamburg.
[3], III, [2], 8-91; 7 pages [8] pages of sheet music.Ya'ari 578; Otzar HaHagadot 799.