[Publisher] The publisher of this edition is the noted firm of antiquarian booksellers Historicana, founded by Irvin Ungar in 1987. The tireless force behind the Szyk revival, Irvin has curated major exhibitions of Szyk's work at the Library of Congress (Washington, DC), the Spertus Institute (Chicago), created traveling exhibitions that have appeared at important institutions in America and Europe and has served as the curator of The Arthur Szyk Society since 1997.

[Translation/Commentary] Byron L. Sherwin is Distinguished Service Professor and Director of Doctoral Programs at Chicago's Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, where he served for many years as Dean and Vice-President for Academic Affairs. A native of New York, he received his B.S. from Columbia University, his M.A. in philosophy from N.Y.U., and his Ph.D. from the prestigious Committee on the History of Culture at The University of Chicago. Ordained a Rabbi by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, he also received a Bachelor of Hebrew Literature, a M.H.L. and an honorary Doctor of Hebrew Letters from that institution. For his work in Polish-Jewish relations, Sherwin was decorated with a presidential medal, "The Officer's Order of Merit," by President Lech Walesa of the Republic of Poland. His fields of interest are Jewish theology, philosophy, mysticism and bioethics. The author and editor of more than 26 books and 150 articles, his works have been translated into eight languages, including Polish and Chinese. Dr. Sherwin is writing the translation and commentary for the Haggadah and is the editor of the Companion Volume of essays

[Photographer] Ardon Bar-Hama, Israeli photographer, has digitized collections at the Vatican, Israel Museum, the Chicago Oriental Museum, and other prestigious venues around the world, coupling talent and technology to produce superior high resolution images. In addition to special projects, he is the personal photographer for American/Israeli world renowned artist, Michal Rovner, and architects, Moshe Safdie and Ada Carmi.

[Designer] Irene Morris is the designer for the national and international traveling exhibition "Justice Illuminated: The Art of Arthur Szyk" as well as for the prestigious Art History Papers of The Arthur Szyk Society. Having designed more than 200 books for the fine arts and photography worlds, as well as the philanthropic and museum communities, Irene's almost decade long association with Szyk's art brings an intimate understanding of the artist's palette to the text design of The Haggadah. Irene apprenticed into the craft of graphic design under the mentorship of Charles Carter, an award winning graphic designer in California. After three years, she took time to specialize her studies in the art of typesetting, giving birth to her love of the letterform. She has received numerous design awards for her books including the New England Museum Association First Place Award for The New England Quilt Museum Quilts Book and numerous Certificates of Excellence from Book Builders West for a series on Geology and the Environment and Oceanography.

[Bookbinder] Paul Vogel has earned a reputation as one of the most creative bookbinders in America through his work for such entities as publishing firms Forbes and Random House. He obtained his BFA at Pratt Institute where he studied design and drawing. After several years of world wide travel, he apprenticed in bookbinding first in London and then for four different bookbinders in New York. Since establishing Vogel Bindery in New York City in 1979, which he moved to East Hampton, New York in 1992, his clientele has grown to include Colin Powell, Pace Gallery, Ralph & Ricki Lauren, Robin Williams and The White House. He has also been commissioned by Oprah Winfrey and Tiger Woods for special projects. In addition to the leather bindings given to their top 50 best-selling authors at the end of each year, HarperCollins has hired Paul to create presentation bindings for the Pope, the Dali Lama and the Rev. Billy Graham.

[Printer] Rick De Coyte came to the USA in 1982 with a British software product called ScienTEX, the world's first multi-font word processor. Aimed at the educational market, the ScienTEX product family was the best selling software of its kind from 1982-1986. In 1986, Rick co-founded a company to sell, install and train users on PC-based electronic graphic design/electronic publishing systems. In 1994 the company moved to Old City Philadelphia, the center of the arts district, and Silicon Gallery opened. Because of the owners' strong connection with digital media the gallery's focus was works created on, or influenced by the computer. It was the first and only gallery in the US to exclusively show this kind of art. In 1996, in response to artists' demands, Silicon Gallery Fine Art Prints was founded on a unique collaborative printmaking model established by a handful of fine arts workshops and presses in the United States. While the tools at Silicon are digital, the philosophy is deeply rooted in the belief that it is the chemistry between the artist and the printmaker that results in the finest work. Silicon's client base extends throughout the US and Europe, printing for more than 1,200 artists and producing more than 15,000 original works. Silicon Gallery Fine Art Prints was one of the founding members of Philagrafika (formerly The Philadelphia Print Collaborative) which has allowed them to experiment and develop prints that combine digital and traditional printmaking techniques.

[Print Consultant] Stephen Stinehour has been in the fine book printing world since 1970, specializing in the reproduction of photographs. In 2003 he founded Stinehour Wemyss Editions, publishing photography books, with services from design through printing and binding, as well as digital photography of art and limited edition pigment ink prints for artists. A graduate of RIT, in 1971 Stephen joined the family business, becoming president of The Stinehour Press in Vermont from 1985 until 2003. Stephen is conducting the pre-press preparation for The Szyk Haggadah using an eight-color giclée process developed for experimental use by Epson and is serving as special consultant to the project.

[Companion Volume Contributor] Tom Freudenheim has worked in the museum field for over forty years, having begun his career in the 1960's as Curator of The Jewish Museum in New York. Subsequently he was Assistant Director of the University Art Museum in Berkeley, California. He served as Director of The Baltimore Museum of Art, the Worcester Art Museum, and the Gilbert Collection (London). For a number of years Tom was Assistant Secretary for Museums at Washington's Smithsonian Institution, having oversight responsibility for all of the national museums. He has also had positions as director of the Museum Program at the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, and director of YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York. Tom has published and lectured widely in the field of museum policy, decorative arts, contemporary art and related fields. He currently sits on a number of museum and arts-related boards including the American Federation for the Arts and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture.

[Companion Volume Contributor] Shalom Sabar is chairman, department of Jewish and Comparative Folklore at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. in Art History from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1987. His field of teaching and research is the art and folklore of Jewish communities in Christian Europe and the Islamic East over the ages. One of his books, Ketubbah: Jewish Marriage Contracts of the Hebrew Union College, Philadelphia and New York, 1990, won the American National Jewish Book Award. He lectures widely in academic and non-academic institutions in Israel, Europe and the United States. His most recent book (in Hebrew) deals with the life cycle of the Jews in the lands of Islam.

[Companion Volume Bookbinder] Coriander Reisbord is a rare book conservator in private practice since 1996, with a specialty in 19th Century publisher's cloth bindings. She obtained a BFA in Painting at Pacific Northwest College of Art and an MFA in Book Arts from the University of Alabama. Cory writes, designs, prints and binds books and small ephemera under the imprint of the Skeptical Press, whose projects can be found in the collections of libraries nationwide, including the New York Public Library, Yale University, Mills College and the Getty Research Institute. As an independent conservator/binder, Cory has made custom boxes for the Graduate Theological Union Library of the University of California, Berkeley and repaired books for the California Academy of Sciences Library in San Francisco.

[Box Maker] John DeMerritt owns and operates a bookbindery in Emeryville, California, specializing in small editions and box making. He apprenticed with Klaus Roetzscher in San Francisco and was edition binder at Taurus Bookbindery in Berkeley. He is the past president of the Hand Bookbinders of California and a former board member of the Pacific Center for Book Arts. John has taught at The KALA Institute in Berkeley, The San Francisco Center for The Book and currently teaches bookmaking at The San Francisco Art Institute. His clients include Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Crown Point Press, Idlewild Press, The Legion of Honor Museum, Peter Pfau Architecture and a wide variety of artists, graphic designers and galleries.

[Documentary Film Maker] James Ruxin has been creating film and television in Los Angeles for three decades. The Szyk Haggadah brings together his experience in theatrical documentary and reality television ("Uncle Sadaam," "People's Temple," Emmy-nominated "The Apprentice," et. al.), in montage ("The Academy Awards" and other awards shows) as well as narrative feature films ("After The Rain" et. al.). An earlier documentary which Jim directed on Arthur Szyk has played in numerous film festivals.

[Paper Provider] Pavel Repisky was born in then-communist Czechoslovakia, where he obtained a degree in mechanical engineering. Upon immigrating to the United States, he attended the Cornell University business school where he developed his initial business concept. Drawing upon his Czech heritage, Pavel founded Atlantic Papers, offering a full range of handmade, mould-made, machine-made and inkjet coated fine art papers, as well as consultations to solve the most complex and challenging paper needs of the country's most innovative artists and designers.

[Leather Provider] Marc Lamb is Managing Director of Harmatan Leather, whose leathers are created using traditional methods at a small, highly specialized tannery in Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, UK, an area historically known for producing leather and leather goods. Harmatan was established in the early 1980's to supply the finest quality vegetable tanned goat skins and smooth grained calf skins for bookbinders. Their reputation for exceptional quality has now spread among specialist binders in the United Kingdom and around the world. All Harmatan goatskins originate from the Kano and Sokato regions of Nigeria. These goatskins are used exclusively because of their exceptionally beautiful natural grains and for the time honored quality of their tannage.