Auction 58 - Rare and Important Items
Non-Traditional Haggadah - Water Suppliers Company 405 - Western Desert, 1945
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $1,250
Including buyer's premium
Passover haggadah. Water Suppliers [Company] 405, [Western Desert, Egypt-Lybia], [1945].
Non-traditional haggadah printed in field conditions, for the use of the Jewish soldiers serving in Water Suppliers Company 405 of the British Army in the Western Desert in World War II.
A full-page illustration appears at the beginning of the haggadah, showing a pensive brigade soldier holding a rifle and sitting beneath a palm tree in the middle of the desert; printed on the next page is an introductory text: "On this holy night, the Seder Night, let us recall, we, Jewish soldiers in foreign lands, let us recall more deeply that which has befallen us - our people. Freedom. In the name of this concept, our forefathers went to the stake… for this concept, tens of thousands, even millions have died, and for this concept, tens of thousands of men, we among them, have spent years in foreign lands".
[26] leaves, 19.5X16 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains to covers and first and last leaves. Some creases to leaf and cover corners. Front cover completely detached.
Not in NLI or in Aviram Paz's "The Exodus from Egypt, Then and Now, Collection of Rare Passover Haggadahs from the 1940s, from the Author's Collection" (Kibbutz Dalia, 2015).
Non-traditional haggadah printed in field conditions, for the use of the Jewish soldiers serving in Water Suppliers Company 405 of the British Army in the Western Desert in World War II.
A full-page illustration appears at the beginning of the haggadah, showing a pensive brigade soldier holding a rifle and sitting beneath a palm tree in the middle of the desert; printed on the next page is an introductory text: "On this holy night, the Seder Night, let us recall, we, Jewish soldiers in foreign lands, let us recall more deeply that which has befallen us - our people. Freedom. In the name of this concept, our forefathers went to the stake… for this concept, tens of thousands, even millions have died, and for this concept, tens of thousands of men, we among them, have spent years in foreign lands".
[26] leaves, 19.5X16 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains to covers and first and last leaves. Some creases to leaf and cover corners. Front cover completely detached.
Not in NLI or in Aviram Paz's "The Exodus from Egypt, Then and Now, Collection of Rare Passover Haggadahs from the 1940s, from the Author's Collection" (Kibbutz Dalia, 2015).