Priceless Jewish Haggadah leaves England to be on display in NYC

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NEW YORK - The Rylands Haggadah: Medieval Jewish Art in Context opens at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on March 27 and will remain on view until September 30, 2012. The 14th-century Jewish religious book, preserved by experts at The University of Manchester’s John Rylands Library in England will be hand delivered by the conservators. Dr Yaakov Wise from the University of Manchester’s Centre for Jewish studies said: "The Haggadah is one of the central texts of Rabbinic Judaism. Its use on the first nights of Passover by Jews all over the world from Alaska to Zimbabwe continues a tradition over 3,000 years old. “It connects the Jews of this generation to their ancestors who left slavery in Egypt for a life of freedom in their own country and is the story of the first national liberation movement in history."  [Source]