Stereotype mold with embossing of pages 11 and 12 of the Passover Haggadah in Hebrew and Yiddish. In 2003, in Biłgoraj, several dozen stereotype molds were found in the attic of a house scheduled for demolition and handed over to the Museum of the Biłgoraj Region. Two of the found molds were donated to the "Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre" Center in Lublin by Professor Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska and the Museum of the Biłgoraj Region.
Perhaps the matrices come from Natan Kronenberg's printing house. Cardboard stereotype molds were often stored as ready-made material for the next reprint of a given book.
The Passover Haggadah, i.e. the story of the Israelites' exodus from Egyptian captivity, consists of biblical fragments, comments, prayers and poetic works, including poems and nursery rhymes for children. It was written down between the 2nd and 4th centuries AD. It is read during the Passover Seder. It describes the duties of the inhabitants of a Jewish home on the day of the holiday, lists the obligatory dishes on the table and the symbolic meaning of each of them (for more information, see Rafał Żebrowski, Hag(g)ada shel Pesach, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny, https://delet.jhi.pl/ pl/psj?articleId=20106, access: 1 September 2023).
The Passover Haggadah is the most widely published Jewish book (over 3,500 editions). In Poland, after World War II, three editions were published: a reprint of the Viennese edition of the Haggadah from 1927 (1991), Passover Haggadah and Song of Songs with extensive comments edited by Sacha Pecaric (2002) and Passover Haggadah of the 614th Commandment Society (2007).
