The Book of Customs: A Complete Handbook for the Jewish Year by Scott-Martin Kosofsky
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Overview: Fifteen years ago while researching Jewish imagery, award-winning book designer Scott-Martin Kosofsky happened upon a 1645 edition of the Minhogimbukh — the “Customs Book” — a beautifully designed and illustrated guide to the Jewish year written in Yiddish, the people’s vernacular. Captivated, he investigated further and learned that from 1590 to 1890, this cross between a prayer book and a farmer’s almanac was immensely popular in households all across Europe. Published in dozens of editions and revised over the centuries in Venice, Prague, Amsterdam, and throughout Germany before moving eastward in the nineteenth century to Poland and Russia, these books detail the evolution of Jewish custom over three hundred years. But by the 1890s, as Jewish practice became polarized between the secularist and traditionalist views, the Minhogimbukh disappeared.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Sociology, Religion
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