Image: Arthur Szyk (1894-1951). The Haggadah, The Four Questions (1935), Łódź, Poland

Description: The Four Questions (w:Ma Nishtanah) from Arthur Szyk's w:Haggadah, 1935, Łódź, Poland. Szyk (1894-1951) originally intended his Passover story of persecution and deliverance (told through the traditional text of the Haggadah) to be a strong statement against the Nazis, but no publisher in his native Poland dared take on a project with strong anti-Nazi iconography. He ultimately found a publisher in England. This page has the Hebrew text of the Four Questions, with an illustration showing an older bearded man listening as a young boy reads the traditional Four Questions of the Passover Seder (including "Why is this night different from all other nights?"). In the top right corner is a red snake--understood to be Nazism--coiled as if ready to strike. The illustration is framed by a Hebrew letter מ (mem). In the upper left corner there is a small letter ה (he), which completes the word Ma, the first word in the Hebrew text.
Title: Arthur Szyk (1894-1951). The Haggadah, The Four Questions (1935), Łódź, Poland
Credit: The Arthur Szyk Society, Burlingame, CA (www.szyk.org)
Author: Arthur Szyk
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