Passover Haggadah, 650 – Palestine Company for General Transport. Capua-Italy, Passover 1946. Hebrew.
A non-traditional Haggadah with impressive illustrations. Includes passages of the traditional text, as well as prose and poems. Opens with: "this Haggadah is presented to the people of our unit and to our guests, in the hope that this Passover – our third one on Italian soil – shall be the last one in exile. We hope to return soon to our homeland…" An identical Haggadah was printed in the same year for Company 179 in Caserta, Italy. 31 pp, 14X18 cm. Very good condition.

Passover Haggadah, issued by the "Dror" [movement], German Diaspora [probably Munich], 1947. [Hebrew and Yiddish]. Non-traditional Haggadah, printed for members of the Zionist-Socialist movement "Dror" in Germany, after the Holocaust. During the war, the movement's members infiltrated into Warsaw, acted in the occupied German zone in Poland and in the Ghettos, continued to run a training farm, were among the founders of the Jewish Combat Organization, and participated in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and in actions of resistance in other Polish cities.
The Haggadah contains photos of another non-traditional Haggadah (Hebrew) with more interesting texts concerning current affairs , all to do with the Holocaust (Yiddish): a text titled "Fruehling" [spring], an alternative version of "Ma Nishtana", passages from Yitzchak Katzenelson's poem "I dreamt an Atrocious Dream" (composed in Vittel concentration camp in France in 1943, about a year before the poet was murdered in Auschwitz), text about Yitzchak (Antek) Zuckermann and Zvia Lubatkin ("Dror" members), a poem by Moris Rosenfeld ("Undzer Shif" – our boat) and other texts about the Holocaust and about heroism. [40] pp, 20.5 cm. Good condition. Minor tear on back cover (pasted).

1. Passover Haggadah, with passages by BESHT disciples. Reprinted by Yaffa Fernvald, 1946. Hebrew. Includes a text in Yiddish (copy of a manuscript) – "di seder nacht". Ink stamp on the cover: "Jewish Committee Dachau" and Jewish Information Office C.C. [concentration camp] Dachau". This Haggadah is not recorded in "Otzar HaHaggadot", see no. 4019. [1], 57 pp, 21 cm. Good condition. Spotting and minor tears. Dry and fragile paper.
2. With Derech Haim commentary and Nehora Shalem by… R. Ya'akov [Lorverboym] of Lissa. Gift of the Relief Committee for She'erit HaPleita. Printed by the publishing committee of the Relief Committee, Rabbi Naftali Baruch, Rabbi Aviezer Burstein. Munich, 1948. Yaari 2361; Otzar 4092. [21] leaves, 20 cm. Good condition. Spotting on cover and some minor tears, loose cover. Minor damages in the corners.

1-4. Four Passover Haggadot, 1940. Back cover of two is missing. Fair condition. Tears.
5. Passover Haggadah for the year1941. Printed on bluish paper. Good condition. Tears on cover.
6. Passover Haggadah for the year 1942. Good condition. Tears on cover.
7. Passover Haggadah for the year 1945 or 1947. Back cover is missing. Spotting.
8. Passover Haggadah for the year 1946. Minor spotting, minor tears on cover.
9. Passover Haggadah for the year 1949. One page is bound upside down. Tears on cover, adhesive tape, spotting.
10. Booklet "Kibbutz Passover Haggadah – Passover Seder in the Kibbutz, proposal made by the Tenuah Ha'Kibutzit Ha'Mehuhedet's team towards the printing of a uniformed Haggadah", 1982.
Eight single leaves are attached to the above collection (of the years 1960-1961) composed by Dov Meisel of Kibbutz Alonim, author of the kibbutz Passover Haggadot, with instructions for the Seder coordinators and comments about the structure of the Passover Haggadah and its contents, as well as some purchasing forms for ordering copies of the "Alonim-Kefar Giladi Passover Haggadot". Attached also are leaves with the "Seder Program" – Kibbutz Alonim, 1979.
Provenance: Collection of Dov Meisel.