Template:Did you know nominations/Birds' Head Haggadah

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:49, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Birds' Head Haggadah[edit]

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Bird-headed Jewish man baking matzo

... that the oldest surviving illuminated Passover Haggadah depicts Jews with human bodies and the faces and beaks of birds (detail pictured)? Source: "Earliest surviving illuminated Ashkenazi Haggadah" (The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture); "The illumination shows that all the Jewish characters in the manuscript...are depicted as bird-headed" (Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink)

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Omar Narváez (baseball)

Created by Yoninah (talk). Self-nominated at 21:26, 23 August 2017 (UTC).

New article, long enough, sourced, hook checks out, QPQ done. Cool subject matter! --Usernameunique (talk) 10:15, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

I replaced the image with a cropped version that also appears in the article. Yoninah (talk) 09:19, 15 September 2017 (UTC)