Catholic University in Missouri celebrates Jewish Passover with contemporary Haggadah artwork

SAINT LOUIS DISPATCH
By Tim Townsend

In this panel, the text depicts the seach for leavened bread on the night before Passover.

MISSOURI - As millions mark Passover at sundown today, they will read from a script called the Haggadah, recounting the tale of Israel's flight from slavery in Egypt. The script — which includes prayers, hymns and rabbinic commentary — comes in many forms. Some Haggadot are straightforward and workmanlike, written to get the job done. But few will be as intricately and laboriously constructed as the Haggadah on display at — of all places — a former Jesuit chapel on the campus of St. Louis University. This spring, an exhibit at the university's Museum of Contemporary Religious Art is displaying "The Papercut Haggadah," a work by Israeli artist Archie Granot that tells the Exodus story using the Jewish folk art technique of papercutting. [link]