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The Haggadah tells the story of Passover, a holiday that commemorates the Israelites’ escape from Egypt, and is used during the Seder, the special commemorative meal. Artists have also celebrated Passover through illustrated manuscripts and drawings. Modern papercut artist Archie Granot continues a five-hundred-year tradition with a fifty-five-page Haggadah. Using geometric and abstract shapes rather than figural Jewish symbols, Granot created a work that evokes the intense emotions associated with Seder. Each word of his text is cut by hand, and every page stands as both an independent work of art and a single piece of a beautiful, thematically unified whole.

Image: Archie Granot, Nirtzah. Collection of Max Thurm.