Is there a link between the Easter rabbits and the Yaknehaz rabbits?
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I think that TRiG is probably closest... The hare-haggada connection, as explained in the article, is a medieval Jewish appropriation of the hare-hunt motif, retroactively attached to the jag den Has/YaKNeHZ pun, and ultimately it probably relates to the hare/rabbit as a springtime symbol appropriate for the Pesah celebration (as well as the persecuted-but-escaping hare as a symbol of the Jewish people à la Had Gadya). The rabbit-Easter connection is a little more foggy but is probably a remnant of older pagan European traditions, drawing similarly on the rabbit-springtime connection. While the rabbit appears throughout medieval European iconography, though, the earliest explicit link between rabbits and Easter doesn't appear until the late 1600s in Germany - long after, by the way, the tradition of illuminated haggadot had died out.
Side-bar: the earliest mention of the "Easter bunny" that I could find is from Georg Frank's De ovis paschalibus, [Regarding Easter Eggs], a Latin pamphlet from 1682. You can actually see the original quote here, paragraph 9, where he writes (my very-quick-and-dirty translation from the Latin, excuse my mistakes):
In Upper Germany, in our Palatinate region, Alsace and the surrounding area, and Westphalia, they call these eggs di Hassen-Eier [hare-eggs] because of the story, in which simple-minded folk and children believe that a hare (der Oster-Hasse [The Easter-Hare]) was himself laying those eggs and hiding them in the grass of the gardens etc. so that the children would search after them eagerly, to the amus*m*nt and jollity of their elders.
It goes on but I have to run so can't translate much more.
Thus in conclusion I would say that one doesn't come from the other, but they (may) share a common ancestor as springtime festivals (similar to the prevalence, for example, of egg symbolism in Passover and Easter).
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