Auction 097 Winner's Unlimited - Holy books, letters from Rabbis and Rebbes, Judaica, Posters & Periodicals, Postcards, Maps, Zionism, numismatics.
Jan 31, 2017
Israel

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LOT 62:

A Nontraditional Haggadah. Kibbutz HaZoreah 1948

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A Nontraditional Haggadah. Kibbutz HaZoreah 1948
[18] leaves, 21 cm. 
A nontraditional Haggadah published by Kibbutz HaZoreah [a member of HaShomer HaTzair], Alina printing press, Haifa, 1948. Printed in a special stencil printing in which folded leaves are attached at their ends for thickening. 
On page 4 is a different liturgy for "Ma Nishtana" which includes the question "How is this night different...for on it we relate the story of the exodus from Egypt while the gates of Israel are locked and rejoice with the arrival of spring while nations lift up their swords against each other in our land?". On page 8 is mention of an event during the Holocaust - the Haggadah relates the story of the Actzia on the night after Yom Kippur in which 3800 Jews were murdered, with detailed descriptions of the Nazi atrocities. 
To the traditional text of "In every generation a person must see himself as if he left Egypt" they added the words "as we also left the house of slavery, the valley of death, and we built a house which will not be destroyed, for the dispersed ones of Israel in their land...". Later on are songs which combine the emotions of the survivors about the tremendous loss of those murdered in the Holocaust, and words of encouragement and strengthening about the revival in their land. 
A rare Haggadah which does not appear in the National Library. 
A tear in the upper left-hand corner of the binding, fine condition.