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Non-traditional haggadah - Kevutzat HaSharon. The group settled in Ramat David and later helped established Kibbutz Yifat. Stencil print with illustrations.
Rare haggadah, only a few copies were printed for the members of this group, before they solidified into a recognized kibbutz. Alongside original passages, there is an interesting text regarding the connection between the young generation to the one of the patriarchs, titled "Machol Masda": "The chain has not been cut ... the chain still continues on - our fathers have danced in this manner, one hand on the shoulder of his friend, and a Torah Scroll in the second hand ... we will dance in the same way ... our fathers ... they closed their eyes and the springs of joy opened ... our fathers knew then that we would also dance this way." Additionally includes the "Am Shomer" passage against the backdrop of an Israeli flag and "Kumu Toei Midbar," etc.
[16] leaves. Tears on the right side of the binding. Otherwise fine condition.
Rare, non-traditional haggadah. Stencil print with illustrations.
The haggadah has an original opening that lends it a ceremonious character. In place of the usual "simanim" for the Seder, the content refers to the current gathering in honor of Passover: Kadesh - the community sanctifies itself for the holiday. Hakhel - at 5:30 they join together in Kfar Szold, prepare for the parade and head towards the field for cutting the "Omer." Seder - order of the parade: first the reapers carrying their scythes, then those who gather the bundles, then the children, then choir and then the rest of the community. Paraders sing: "HaGeshem Chalaf ..." ["The Rain has Gone ..."], followed by separate stanzas for those who reap and those who gather.
Followed by "Havaat HaOmer" [bringing the Omer]: "The bell rings, the time to bring the Omer has arrived. The community gathers in the dining room, they sit around set tables for the Passover seder. To the musical notes of the piano ... those who bring the Omer walk the length of the dining room and wave the Omer ..."
Unique Mah Nishtanah text: "Why is this nation different than all other nations, that all other nations sit each man in his land and our nation is dispersed between all the nations and defiled. That all the nations fight amongst each other and we are pulverized between them? When will we be redeemed? When will we make aliyah to settle? In addition, "We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt; we were dispersed among the nations again, we rotted in the darkness of exile, jubilee after jubilee we did not know rest and our lives were in danger, popes and kings abused us. Hoodlums of all nations arose to destroy us ... and now we have arisen to remove the yoke of exile from upon us ..." and more.
Steiner's list of Kibbutz Haggadot includes only one haggadah from Kfar Szold published in 1950. This haggadah is not on Steiner's list, he was apparently unaware of its existence.
16, [1] leaf. 22 cm. Double leaves [Each pair of leaves is attached at their edges]. Missing the back cover. Very fine condition.
Non-traditional haggadah published by The General Federation of Hebrew Laborers in the Land of Israel, Council of Tel Aviv-Jaffa Workers, Cultural Committee. Tel Aviv 1940. Stencil print. Haggadah divided into "reading" passages for the various courses of the meal, with quotations from D. Frishman, Postolsky, Berl Katzelelson and more.
Aside various original texts, there is an interesting passage referring to the long-suffering of the Jewish people, and the harsh current events: "Year after year, jubilees have gone by and the end of the suffering of our people has not been awakened. Now as then, the waters have not reprieved, the ark of Israel blusters about on cruel waves, the hand is still outstretched, the hand of strangers upon us. In Germany, in Poland, and in Romania, in Yemen and in Persia, the whole world is robbed and broken. The terror of the shadow of death encompasses us exile after exile, from Egypt until now we have not shed the rod of exile. Go out and learn what Lavan the Arami desired, and what others have desired. To consume Yaakov, make his home desolate, to trample him and not have pity on the worm of Yaakov. And just as they torture him, he will break forth, because the spirit of Israel has not been beaten, then as now. The rebelliousness is not extinct. The urge for freedom lives on, the urge for freedom, this desire of Israel's, born of slavery. With its strength it will bubble up and wash away the filth from the world ..." and more. The year of the haggadah's print appears on its last page.
Rare haggadah, does not appear in Steiner's list.
[4] leaves. 27 cm. Stains, detached leaves. Fine condition.
Non-traditional haggadah, Kibbutz Ayelet HaShachar 1945, stencil print with illustrations. Vivid references to events on the kibbutz, of the Holocaust, and the closure of the gates of the Land of Israel in the face of the refugees, and more.
Alongside original spring songs there are a number of sharp passages relating to events of the time: events on the kibbutz, casualties in Palestine, refugees and the fact that they weren't allowed into the Land, and the vision for the future: "On this night, the 15th of Nissan 1945 ... this will be the sixth year when we are missing our friends who went in our names to fight the fight of Israel, to take revenge for our spilled blood, and to break the gates of the ghettos and to pave a path of redemption for our diaspora ... in the lines of the Jewish Fighting Brigade ... in this hall of celebration we miss our friends who were taken with hate while they were still part of our lives. Shlomo Sheltzer, a pioneer of volunteerism for the war of revenge, a fateful hand took him out of battle, and Yaakov Rosenfeld who went up like a pure sacrifice ... and they are not the only ones missing here. A terrible calculation of the blood of European Jewry - for the "sin" of being Jewish, it was slaughtered and trampled ... Only childhood remains from the destruction of the exiles ... the refugees are wandering with neither land nor cover and without a homeland. And the one homeland that is their hope and the anchor for their rescue - is locked before them because of the cruel heart of the nations and their leaders, though they were killed ... they are not considered among the nations, and all their sacrifices and sufferings do not stand before their eyes that they should be worthy of a homeland, to be a free nation ..."
Includes an additional interesting passage titled, "Likroa Et Gzar HaDin" ["To Destroy the Evil Decree"] that discusses the closure of Palestine to Holocaust survivors: We heard how in all different ways they do not let Jews arrive in the Land of Israel. They won't allow this grim "venture" to come about. We heard how they make calculations, even now, during the days of the terrible destruction, there were no ships. There were enough ships for everything, just not to rescue our children, brothers, sisters and parents ... the Jews of Romania and the refugees from Hungary that reached Romania, and the people who were in camps for years and children who lost their brothers and parents ... they must remain in their places, because there is a White Paper, a quota, a law, there is a major policy, and the Jews should just die, and those who remain alive - we must not break this major policy ... There is no other topic in our lives during these days other than one - to do everything possible in order to tear up this decree and open the gates of the land ..." and more.
Various illustrations depicting the return of the Jewish settlement as the present-day exodus from Egypt.
Ayelet HaShachar was founded with the help of the Palestine Workers Fund in 1915, by a group of five men and one woman from the second wave of immigration. The kibbutz was established in Emek HaChulah, next to Chatzor HaGlilit. In October 1925, the kibbutz joined Ein Charod HaMeuchad, which had separated from the Gedud HaAvodah in 1923, and served as a foothold in the Upper Galilee.
[25] leaves, text on both sides of the page. Leaves connected with lace. Fine condition.
Non-traditional haggada, stencil print with illustrations by Ruth Schloss, published by the HaShomer HaTzair kibbutzim. Many texts discuss the tightening of the ring around the neck of the Jewish Nation in Europe in 1943.
"We started out few in number, and 50,000 we are today, but we are too few to save the tens of thousands of the nation who remain on the continent of death. Because the hand of the cruel rule on the Diaspora, they cut off the artery of our life....we have been filled with horrors of night and fear of day every day...who has a heart to carry the day and night, the fear of the gallows throughout the world...who has tears to cry the cry of insult...for the terror of a babe wandering naked in the forest, who has tears for this?....
Includes a Yizkor passage for the loss of Jewish communities in Europe: "This nation that was exiled that was destroyed ..in the stations of loss and the carriages of death, these are the Jewish communities that were killed, this is the screams of the mother whose baby was killed in her hands, this is the torture of the orphans of thousands, these are the death ships that sink in the depths of the sea...."
Includes a passage that contrasts the "spring of nations" that is fast approaching to the destruction of the Jewish nation: "The spring of the nations is now approaching, it will come even if yet tarries, but meanwhile the terrible plot is being carried out, our nation is being destroyed!"
Towards the end of the haggadah there are texts that express hope for the continuation of the Zionist activities, despite the terrible loss: "And this is the fourth year of the world war, outside the sword destroys and creates fear. But in the gates our brethren have placed tens of thousands of ssoldiers, notrim and defense forces, and they are a shield and strength for us - because they went for the freedom of the nation and our lips speak of our admiration for them, when they return we will be adorned with victory and you return in peace to continue the operations..."
32 pages. 20 cm. Fine condition.
Stencil print. Haggadah comprised of poem, song, and narration, some vowelized. Includes many original passages, for the most part elegies upon "shever bat ami" - referring to the Holocaust of European Jewry, expressing the shock and helplessness of the remnants who just found out about the bitter destruction.
"The tears have come to an end, upon the destruction of our nation ... we will remember brothers and sisters, parents and children who fell dead as they defended the honor of the nation and humanity ... and great is the surrounding desolation ... and the lack of refuge, can we be redeemed in the darkness and if we pray, which ear will hear? ... All of them will be swallowed by emptiness ... and there is no support, the hand is empty, and there is no path ... how have we been killed ... with no revenge and for no sin?! How have my daughters been abandoned?! How were my youths slaughtered?! How were my elderly lost?! ... They burned my children alive, they who choked with their filthy hands, my best and most pure ... can there be revenge to pay for this blood and more? ...
Includes an interesting passage decrying the "cruel nation" - alluding to the Nazis: "Cursed are you, cruel nation! Cursed will be your name, for eternity, and the curse of the One above will forever accompany your nation! You will drown in the blood of your sacrifice and float in the sea of tears and your problems night after night, the moans of the dead ..." and more.
18 pages. Jacket title page. Tears in the margins of the title page. The upper section of the title page is missing, not affecting text. Fine condition.







Non-traditional Haggadah, copied by stencil, illustrations. Most of the texts and illustrations depict the dark days of war in Europe. The back jacket features the emblem of Hebrew Transport Unit 179.
One of the texts refers to the Holocaust: "Come Elijah, to our seder this evening. Few are those who partake ... they can't come, they who fell while searching for a cave or hiding place ... my chair is all smoldering smoke, splinters and cries, all together ... the wounds are still fresh from crying, the pain is to the heavens ...! My blood is permitted! Beat them and the blood of the murdered shall arise ... and return ... and shall never be erased ..."
Additional interesting paragraph, characteristic of the spirit of the soldiers in the Jewish brigade: Our blood has been abandoned and is cheap. There is no one to take revenge other than us. And our only revenge can be one: to create in the Land a power that will guarantee that Jewish blood will not be abandoned forever. Our entire strength and resilience we must invest in this revenge. We have merited to be the fulfillment of the hopes of generations. The fulfillment of the reason for the river of blood and tears that were spilled and are being spilled by our fathers for thousands of years is dependent on us ... and know, therefore - our enemies - you do not frighten us! This land was not given to us by your lovingkindness ... you will not overcome us. We will smash the metal bolts with our heads. The new mines that you concealed will not impede us ... wherever and whoever our enemies may be: whether they are the rioters that pillage and rape or the representatives of the dominant "culture," you will not subdue us ..." and more.
30 pages. 22 cm. Tears in the margins of the binding. Leaves attached with a lace. Fine condition.
Stencil print with illustrations. Print on double pages [each pair of leaves is attached at the edges].
Original songs of spring with some practical passages. "Yizkor" for the Holocaust victims and the bitter lot of European Jewry, written in current terms: "We will remember the remnant of Israel who remained after the Nazi hell, the remnant from the sword, hunger, torture and fair, who are rotted and childless and bereaved ... without a home and without a homeland in the lands of the Diaspora, wandering on the paths and in the camps ... we will remember the tens of thousands of our brethren who were destroyed by the human animals who transported them in death cars to the inferno, who were imprisoned and tortured and died in the concentrations camps ... our brothers ... the heroes who sanctified in the ghettos and the forests and the cellars ... who preserved the G-dly spark in their hearts and adopted the weak and the pained ..." Additionally, includes Yizkor for those who died in battle for the land of Israel, interesting passage with the title, "The dynasty has not yet been detached, it continues on" that describes the history of the members of the "Gush Chevron" and mentions those who died in battle for its capture ["Here is a very long row of bodies. Our faces have changed, death is reflected in our eyes"] and more.
19 leaves. 22 cm. Minimal stains. Illustrated jacket title. Fine condition.
Non-traditional haggadah with illustrations. Calligraphy, copied by stencil.
The traditional "Mah Nishtanah" has been replaced: "All other nights we sit in our scattered places and discuss mundane topics. This night we all sit together in our homes and discuss our freedom." Leaf 25 includes a difficult passage describing the suffering of the Jewish Nation over the generations: "The moans of tortured slaves, of robbed youth, of tens of thousands of slaughtered people, generations of starving children. The insult of depressed nations burnt for the freedom of thought and the conscience ... a complete nation, our nation that wallows in its blood, brought to slaughter, every country was its gallows ... Samson who grasped the columns of the temple in his last heroic stand, the death of the martyrs on the heights of Masada ... what is your bravery in face of the bravery of those who do not have anything, no shield, trampled to the dust and abandoned without hope ..."
Additionally includes some references to events of the Holocaust: "Towns and ghettos are drowning in their blood that flows, is there another remnant? Listen to the voice of the blood ... because one is the blood that was spilled and the blood that flows in our arteries - listen to the blood - it is alive, and it boils. The heart of Israel yet beats with its last bit of strength ..." Towards the end of the haggadah there is a passage that compares the liberation of the Jewish Nation to release from iron chains and more.
33 pages. 20 cm. Fine condition.
Non-traditional haggadah with chilling current texts relating to Holocaust survivors, the nations ignoring the suffering of the Jewish people, the bitter fate of the Jewish diaspora after the Holocaust.
Passage added to Mah Nishtanah: "Why is our people so isolated and orphaned among the nations? For what and why is it so despised and persecuted? Until when will it wander among the nations with neither land nor sky, dispersed and scattered? Until when? ... For what and why are the gates of our Land not wide open so that the remnants of the sword and refugees of the annihilation can come? Why is the world silent, ignoring their suffering even today, after the war? Why is Israel always first to sacrifice and last to salvation? Why?
Later there is a passage turning to the survivors with a tone of encouragement: "You, remnants of spear and refugees of hunger! Place in front of your eyes only one thing: salvation and refuge. Request the means to metamorphose from the futility of the soul to obtaining a country! Because the children of Israel are not slaughtered for our faith, nor for our evil are we killed, nor for our righteousness are we stabbed, not for the sanctification of the Name are we burnt. All hands are upon us because we are hated ... we will prepare a land for our sons ... for the future generations, for the orphans of Nemirov after twenty years, after fifty years, after a hundred years ..." There is also a passage titled "Who will Give?" which is something of a prayer for the future redemption; a Yizkor text referring to those murdered in the Holocaust: "We will remember our comrades, heroes of the times, martyrs in the ghettos, in the forests, in the cellars and in the depths of the earth, and in the clouds of soil ..." The Partisans' Song and more.
Kibbutz Givat Chaim was established by pioneers from Europe in 1932, south of Hadera. It was named about a year after its establishment, for Chaim Arlozorov, who was murdered in 1933.
[11] leaves. 22 cm. Very fine condition except for stains on the title page.
Non-traditional haggadah with illustrations and original texts which describe the Jews in the concentration camps, the fate of the Jewish partisans, the illegal immigrants in the ships and more.
Aside original spring texts, there is a passage describing the daily difficulties of the Jews in the concentration camps: The women are the majority of the survivors, among the men only the youngest and healthiest remain. One of the most terrible things is the feeling of isolation, characteristic of each - katzat - resident of the concentration camp ..." There is a passage relating to the fate of the partisans who escaped to the forests: "A tremendous courage of spirit was necessary to go to the forests ... they knew they would find an atmosphere of unlimited hatred from both the farmers and the foreign elements among the partisans themselves. Hundreds of Jews lost their lives as soon as they entered the forests. Jewish youth understood that staying in the ghetto would not save their relatives, only escaping to the forests would afford the opportunity to avenge the blood of their families. The youth that fled to the forests were tortured, wallowing in their blood, demeaned of human dignity, they lost their fathers, their mothers, their brothers and sisters ..." There is a harsh illustration of Jews being beaten with sword blows beside discarded religious objects, and more.
Later, there are passages describing the bitter fate of those who escaped the claws of the Nazis and attempted to immigrate by boat: "Among hundreds of thousands of Jews bursting into the country, there will also be a wave of brave pioneers who can be a decisive factor in our struggle and our enterprise. The sea had no mercy on the small illegal immigrant ship - a terrible storm shook it, raised it up to the top of the wave and threw in down to the abyss ... the immigration by shore started with no luck. A boat which was lowered from the ship overturned and burned, one illegal immigrant was barely saved ... many did not have the strength and fell into the sea, but quick hands, brothers' hands, rescued the fallen and transferred them from hand to hand until they reached the shore ..." and more.
[15] leaves. On one page of the haggadah the printed text on the right was cut by the press. Partially detached leaves. Stains. Fine condition.
Stencil print with illustrations, reference to current events and the history of the Gaaton group before it formed into the Naot Mordechai kibbutz. Rare, one-time haggadah published within the group.
The haggadah opens with a text commemorating the victims of the destruction: "From the blood of young and old and the honor of the holy peoples of Tarshish who fell casualty ..." The Mah Nishtanah text expresses the yearning for freedom: "All other nights, the thoughts and worries of all of Israel revolve around an existential war. This night the longing and thoughts of Israel ... recall their past redemption and the yearning for their future redemption which will arise and be established ... there is no generation in Israel who did not know scorn and the disgrace of slaves ... and there is no generation in which the desire did not arise to have a life of freedom and honor ..."
There are a number of interesting passages relating to the history of the members of the group and their yearning to form a kibbutz: "In previous years, the members of our kibbutz, from their dispersion throughout the Land, met to sit together as brothers. This year we are seated at a seder in two camps. All previous nights of Passover, we sat with our bundles on our backs with the anticipation of the decisive event of our lives, settlement. This year, we set up home in the Hula lands, in which we will build a home and farm for ourselves and our children, a refuge for the far-flung of Israel. And in the hearts of those sitting in the two camps, there is one hope: to sit together in our home next year. And it was in the month of Cheshvan, on the eighth of the month, people from all the Galilee settlements were accepted to Kfar Blum, and you, the members of the Gaaton group will arise to inherit the left bank of the Jordan and to establish a new settlement called Naot Mordechai ... the work began to the light of oil lamps ... the work was carried out fervently and did not stop even when the first shots rang out. In the morning, altercations broke out on the lands bordering Kfar Zoya, and as the shots increased, the wounded in our camp increased. Shlomo Bentov was wounded in the field and died of his wounds on the way. Shlomo Ben-Yehudah was killed in the camp. With the first shots, the workers concentrated primarily on establishing fortifications and filling sand bags, and when the police arrived, and then the army, the base of the camp stood on its hill and the main area was plowed ..."
There is also an original text by Yitzchak Shalev, entitled "For Those Who Walk in Many Waters - A Prayer" to the meter of the Song of the Sea, and more.
22 pages. 21 cm. Fine condition. Partially detached back binding.