Reform version of the Haggada.
106 pages. Most of the Haggada is in English, printed from left to right. Illustrations and music notes.
Otzar HaHaggadot 2385. Original, printed binding. Very fine condition.
Hagada Liturgie fuer die haeusliche Feier der Sederabende.
64 [1] page, high-quality paper. A Reform Haggada. The entire title page and most of the Haggada is in German. Illustrated.
Otzar HaHaggadot 2588. Original decorated binding (with a blemish on the spine). Very fine condition.
Hagada Liturgie fuer die haeusliche Feier der Sederabende .
45 [3] pages. Reform Haggada. The entire title page and most of the Haggada is in German. With pictures.
Otzar HaHaggadot 2620. Magnificent copy, printed on high-quality paper with generous margins. Very fine condition.
* The Union Haggadah. Edited and published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Bloch Publishing Company, New York, 1919, Otzar HaHaggadot 2700. Reform liturgy, with illustrations, photographs and music notes.
* The Union Haggadah. Home service for the Passover, The Central Conference of American Rabbis. [c1923]. Otzar HaHaggadot 2920. Reform liturgy, with illustrations and music notes. Mostly in English.
* Haggadah. Passover Eve Service for home. Published by the Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues. Printed by Williams, Lea and Company. London [before 1963]. The liturgy of the Haggadah is abridged and different from the traditional liturgy.
* Pesach Haggadah Seder Chadash. The New Haggadah…Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard Beherman’s Jewish Book. New York, 1942. Otzar HaHaggadot 3882. Liturgy with differences from the traditional liturgy; abridged Hallel, additions of songs and musical notes. Double title page. Introduction and instructions for the reader – in English.
* Haggadah Yisraelit…by Rabbi Dr. Meir Idit the Center for Progressive Judaism. Sivan printing press, Jerusalem, 1965.
* Pesach Haggadah. Passover Eve Service for Home. Revised edition. Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues. Printed by Williams, Lea and co. London, 1962. The liturgy of the Haggadah is abridged and different from the traditional liturgy.
Fine-very fine condition.
A Haggada with a non-traditional liturgy [Reform].
Most of the Haggada is in English. With illustrations and many music notes. 162, XVI pages, high-quality paper.
Otzar HaHaggadot 2920, Goldman 168. Original printed binding. Very fine condition.
Written by M. Brand, illustrated by A. Chatzor. [Givat Brenner], Arieli Printing Press.
[18 leaves, including the title-page cover]. The Haggadah is a facsimile of an artistic manuscript with illustrations. Name of publisher on the back cover. Some of the paragraph titles are in red ink.
Illustrated cover is in fine condition. The Haggadah is in very fine condition.
Passover Haggadah. Non-traditional. Kfar HaNassi. [1949-1950] ?
“The axis of our state is peace. Peace for near and far. Peace for East and West, peace for nations large and small. From within the UN Assembly and from without, we will work to consolidate peace between the nations and do whatever is within our humble ability to sweeten opposition between the peoples and blocs of peoples … to prepare conditions in the world so that one nation will not raise a sword against another, and they will not study war anymore” from the speech by the prime minister in the introduction to the Haggadah.
Specifications: [1], 28, [1] page, including the covers. 25 cm. Lithograph print. Many illustrations. By a “seed” group from HaBonim in England, Kfar HaNassi.
The cover is in brown ink, the text is in blue ink. Excerpts from the Haggadah and other traditional texts, with poems and sections of prose and matters relating to Kfar HaNasi. Not listed by Steiner.
Condition: Very fine.
Non-traditional haggadah published by the Border Police headquarters. Israel Police, Uri Oren graphics.
[12] leaves, 16×17 cm. Illustrated jacket title page.
Color illustrations on each leaf. Poem by Ephraim Talmay about the Border Police.
Moderate-fine condition.
United Kibbutz Misgav-Am’s first non-traditional Passover haggadah, HaNoar HaOved, 1949.
Specifications: 36 pages, paper. With many pictures and illustrations, extensive reference to the Holocaust, the struggle against the British, illegal immigration, the establishment of the state and the War of Independence:
Page 13: Yitzchak Katzenelson’s Holocaust poem.
Page 14: about the Holocaust, illustration of barbed-wire fences.
Page 15: about the Holocaust by Sh. Sh. Prog.
Page 17: about the Holocaust.
Page 18: about the Holocaust with Hannah Szenes’s song “Ashrei HaGafrur.”
Page 29: “Let us remember the members of our kibbutz who died in heroic battles …”
Kibbutz Misgav Am – a United Kibbutz, founded on Feb. 11, 1945. Located near Metulla, by the border with Lebanon. The name “Misgav Am” symbolizes the agricultural settlement, the most important fortress (misgav) of the people in its homeland.
Condition: Except for a small stain on the front cover, very fine condition.
Non-traditional haggadah – Kibbutz Givat HaShloshah – stencil print with illustrations, most of the texts in the haggadah relate to current events – the holocaust of European Jewry in present tense, and internal struggles in the land of Israel. Lacking front binding.
Page 20 has a picture depicting a tyrant beating Jews against a backdrop of an image of an elderly Jew and a skull with a swastika on its forehead and text relating to the Holocaust: ‘My brothers in the dungeon, in the wretched cells … my brothers huddled into herds for slaughter … from cities and towns, alters for sacrifices … and every man will sue for their deaths, and the sky above will fall weeping over them … there is no holocaust like the holocaust happening to our brothers in Poland, the disaster and terrors are beyond any imagination and even the horrors of Germany and the annihilation of Austria pale in comparison to the terror of Nazi-occupied Poland, where all routes of rescue are blocked and all traces of hope have faded, Polish Jewry knows that there is great doubt if the sun will yet rise for it …’ After an original text relating to bringing the omer, there is a segment about WWII: ‘The cry of war shakes the world, for over half a year the havoc has continued … the destruction is increasing at a rate that even the wildest imagination cannot possibly grasp …’
There is also in interesting segment relating the the HaPoalim movement: ‘The Poalim movement is wallowing in its blood … as if paralyzed, drunk or weak today, the socialist liberation movement among most peoples …’ And texts relating to the “HeChalutz” movement with its attempts to assist persecuted European Jews, and segments describing the struggle for independence in the Land of Israel: ‘The ax has been raised over the foundation of the construction of the homeland … all this while our people are in great distress, with millions of its sons condemned to extermination, derision, persecution, scorn and mischief, much more than in the middle ages’ and more.
In place of the “four sons” text, there is a “four questions” text relating to the many fallen victims among the Jewish people over the generations ‘How have peoples become wild animals lurking after blood and prey? … Why has the world become a gallows for us? Why has our blood been forfeit? … The last page of the haggadah under the title ‘To the Entire Jewish People’ turns to Jews all over the diaspora with a call ‘Arise and defend yourselves!’ and more.
29 leaves. 21×16 cm. Some stains. Fine condition.
Non-traditional hagaddah. Printed manuscript with large illustrations. The haggadah is missing the title page and the back binding [the first page is photocopied and bound as a title page, as well as the back of the binding].
The haggadah opens with original spring songs [“Wild fields, heritage of our forefathers, wide open free space – Is there another land blessed as you? …”] Further on, there are texts relating to the Holocaust and the struggle for independence: “The delicate souls have gone and evaporated from slavery and the bondage of poverty and coarseness and malice their government pours over everything … we were unable to rescue them, they were taken to their deaths … we, the saved, are responsible for the remnant of Israel. There are no other shoulders to impose upon. There is no back to hide behind. In exile a Jew would turn his face to Zion. In Zion a Jew must turn his face to the fallen sukkah of Israel …”
There are texts encouraging the survivors who came to the land, and more.
42 leaves. 21 cm. Double pages [one leaf for each page, attached at the edges].
Some stains, fine condition.
Non-traditional Haggadah. Kibbutz Gesher HaZiv in the Western Galilee. [C. 1955]
On the first page: I am hereby prepared and summoned to observe the mitzvah of guarding the spring holiday – remember the day you left the house of servitude.
And on leaf 2: Savri – people of Israel who gather in this home for life, labor and freedom …”
Specifications: 6, [1] 7-35 pages, cover jacket. 24 cm. Stencil-print manuscript. Illustrations.
Very fine condition, except for slight stains.
Non-traditional Passover haggadah. Kibbutz Ginosaur, 1954.
Specifications: [34] leaves. First jacket cover on paper, in color. 20 cm. Stencil print. Illustrations. Reference to Holocaust events. The jacket cover is shorter than the rest of the pages.
In the description of the Holocaust events: ‘ Piles and piles cast away, the murdered and slaughtered corpses and punctured hearts of sons and fathers, who will shed a tear for my flesh and blood, for the destruction of the daughter of my nation …’ The silence of the nations of the world in the face of the destruction of European Jewry is also mentioned: ‘And how can the nations still harden their hearts to not see and not understand how we are scorned, and why should evil rejoice as we are placed as clay for roads and our honor to dust.’
Fine-very fine condition. Detached final page.
Non-traditional Haggadah. Kibbutz Kfar Blum, Central Galilee. [1950].
“A nation who has observed thousands of years since leaving the house of bondage! And along the way, tunnels of servitude and force and inquisition, persecution and pogroms. The people carries in her heart the longing for freedom and brings it to expression, which will not pass over all the houses of Israel.” Quote from the haggadah. Verses from the Tanach, chapters for reading and song.
Specifications: 32 pages, jacket cover. 25 cm. Stencil print. Hand-made illustrations. Not vowelized. Selections from the traditional Haggadah.
Fine condition. Some of the leaves are detached.
Non-traditional Passover haggadah, Kibbutz Kvutzat Kinneret. [1950-1954?].
“We have been kept alive and sustained and arrived at this time, the desire of the soul of every prophet and yearning of the heart of every seer, when it is not the dream I dream and not the vision I behold. I have seen the truth of the dramatization with my own eyes, the falling of the seed in Jezreel through the hands of a handful of unknowns skinny with hunger, without a shadow. And now their sheaf will arise and grow into the state of Israel” quote from the Haggadah. With excerpts from the words of Ch. N. Bialik, Berel Katzenelson and more. Among the poems, ‘We set out to change the face of the world / to put and end to the slavery of man to man …”
Specifications: [28 pages], cover jacket. 21 cm. Stencil print of manuscript. Illustrations. Identical to the haggadah from 1951, but without a year of print on the cover.
Fine condition. Aging stains.
Non-traditional Passover haggadah. Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov, in the Jordan Valley. [1943].
On page 19 “Where ever I stand, I hear knocking, my brother is in the dungeon, in the gloomy cells, the torture camps …”
Specifications: 25 leaves, jacket cover. 26 cm. Stencil print. Illustrations. Mention of Holocaust events.
Moderate-fine condition. Detached pages.
Non-traditional Passover Haggadah. Kibbutz Gabat [Jezreel Valley], 1953.
Specifications: 9 pages. Jacket cover. 27 cm. Stencil print. Illustrations.
Not listed by N. Steiner 1965. Among the songs: ‘We set out to change the face of the world / To put an end to the servitude of man to man …’
Fine condition. Some of the leaves are detached, and there are tiny tears in the white margins.
