Photo Gallery: NDI facilitates Haggadah donation to Hesburgh Library

David Silberklang, senior historian at the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, spoke to Notre Dame students and the community in September 2021. Silberklang was invited to give the center’s annual Rev. Bernie Clark, C.S.C., Lecture, which was created in 2009 to highlight issues and themes within the Catholic social tradition and to inspire students to live out Father Clark’s mission of promoting social justice. Guests at the lecture were also invited to visit the Rare Books and Special Collections department of the Hesburgh Libraries, where the “Pessach Haggadah in Memory of the Holocaust” was on display. This Haggadah — one of only 250 in existence — was illustrated by David Wander with calligraphy and micrography by Yonah Weinrib. It was published in 1985 as a portfolio of handprinted plates, which juxtapose imagery from the Holocaust with traditional Passover images and text.

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