Online Auction 019 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
Two Non-Tradition Haggadot – Kibbutz Ayelet HaShachar
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Two non-traditional Haggadot. Kibbutz Ayelet HaShachar, 1944, 1945.
The Haggadot contain passages from the traditional version and from Song of Songs alongside passages of prose and poetry; accompanied by illustrations (some of the illustrations of the 1944 Haggadah are hand-colored). The Haggadot deal mainly with destruction and resurrection, the settlement of Palestine, the Holocaust and immigration.
1. Passover Haggadah, 1944.
On p. 11, alongside the Hebrew title "Before tomorrow comes", there is an illustration of a framer sowing his field in front of attacking tanks and airplanes. On p. 15, a passage beginning with the 26th anniversary of the Kibbutz refers to "Our friends who went on our behalf to fight the battle of Israel […] to shatter the walls of the ghettoes" and alongside it "The thousands led like sheep to the slaughter […] the thousands of victims that have marked with their blood the mark of Cain on the ground". On p. 19, a poem by David Shimonovitz [Shimoni], "To the Legislatures of Evil" (Hebrew), challenging the policy of the Mandate government. On the cover of the Haggadah, the name of Yosef Eilon, who was one of the first members of the Kibbutz, was written in pen.
[2] cover, 23 pp, 21.5cm. Good condition. The size of the leaves varies. Tears and open tears along the edges of the cover. A few tears to the margins of the large leaves. Stains. Creases.
2. Passover Haggadah, 1945.
On leaf 6, in which the words "In every generation a person is obligated to regard himself as if he had come out of Egypt" from the traditional Haggadah are cited, there is an illustration of slaves in Egypt facing a Palestinian farmer in his field. On leaf 13, there is an illustration of a company of Jewish soldiers marching proudly opposite a refugee and her two children, the three of them covered with rags, beside burnt and ruined buildings. On pp. 15-16, there is reference to the fighting members of the Kibbutz, their friends who are in prison due to their resistance to the British, and to the Kibbutz being "a home to the survivors of the European exile – to the Jewish children of Transnistria, the first survivors from hell". On leaves 23-24, there is a passage from a speech delivered by Golda Meirson [Meir], in which she criticizes the Mandate government for its policy of not accepting Holocaust refugees to Palestine.
[1] cover, 25 leaves (bound out of order), approx. 17x21 cm. Good condition. Tears and open tears along the edges of several leaves, mainly the cover and the last leaf. Stains. Creases.
The Haggadot contain passages from the traditional version and from Song of Songs alongside passages of prose and poetry; accompanied by illustrations (some of the illustrations of the 1944 Haggadah are hand-colored). The Haggadot deal mainly with destruction and resurrection, the settlement of Palestine, the Holocaust and immigration.
1. Passover Haggadah, 1944.
On p. 11, alongside the Hebrew title "Before tomorrow comes", there is an illustration of a framer sowing his field in front of attacking tanks and airplanes. On p. 15, a passage beginning with the 26th anniversary of the Kibbutz refers to "Our friends who went on our behalf to fight the battle of Israel […] to shatter the walls of the ghettoes" and alongside it "The thousands led like sheep to the slaughter […] the thousands of victims that have marked with their blood the mark of Cain on the ground". On p. 19, a poem by David Shimonovitz [Shimoni], "To the Legislatures of Evil" (Hebrew), challenging the policy of the Mandate government. On the cover of the Haggadah, the name of Yosef Eilon, who was one of the first members of the Kibbutz, was written in pen.
[2] cover, 23 pp, 21.5cm. Good condition. The size of the leaves varies. Tears and open tears along the edges of the cover. A few tears to the margins of the large leaves. Stains. Creases.
2. Passover Haggadah, 1945.
On leaf 6, in which the words "In every generation a person is obligated to regard himself as if he had come out of Egypt" from the traditional Haggadah are cited, there is an illustration of slaves in Egypt facing a Palestinian farmer in his field. On leaf 13, there is an illustration of a company of Jewish soldiers marching proudly opposite a refugee and her two children, the three of them covered with rags, beside burnt and ruined buildings. On pp. 15-16, there is reference to the fighting members of the Kibbutz, their friends who are in prison due to their resistance to the British, and to the Kibbutz being "a home to the survivors of the European exile – to the Jewish children of Transnistria, the first survivors from hell". On leaves 23-24, there is a passage from a speech delivered by Golda Meirson [Meir], in which she criticizes the Mandate government for its policy of not accepting Holocaust refugees to Palestine.
[1] cover, 25 leaves (bound out of order), approx. 17x21 cm. Good condition. Tears and open tears along the edges of several leaves, mainly the cover and the last leaf. Stains. Creases.
Passover Haggadot
Passover Haggadot