Image: Arthur Szyk (1894-1951). The Haggadah. French Dedication Page (1935), Łódź, Poland

Description: Arthur Szyk 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 French-language dedication page--which shows the ancient Jewish heroine Judith with the head of the villain Holofernes--reads: "I am but a Jew praying in art; if I have succeeded in any measure, if I gained the power of reception among the elite of the world, then I owe it all to the teachings, traditions and eternal virtues of my People.”
Title: Arthur Szyk (1894-1951). The Haggadah. French Dedication Page (1935), Łódź, Poland
Credit: The Arthur Szyk Society, Burlingame, CA (www.szyk.org)
Author: Arthur Szyk
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