The first haggada of Kibbutz HaGarin [later known as "Gilad" or "Even Yitzchak"]. Stencil print with illustrations.

The text integrates passages regarding the troubles that the Jewish Nation underwent throughout the years of exile: "Throughout all the burrows of enslavement, of the coercion, the inquisition, decimation and riots....we did not know rest and our lives were hanging...." Integrates verses of the rebuke in Leviticus and Numbers.

Texts regarding the Holocaust: "A day of non-stop fears and distrust in the life of those who remained....the delicate souls are rotting from the servitude and chains, the poverty and crudity and malice pour their rule over everything....how have we been abandoned from G-d and nation? How have we been killed throughout the world? Yizkor...a person should remember dismembered bodies on the roads, and the body of the elderly thrown around, stabbed, and cut heads in puddles of brotherly blood, and a child like a sieve in the lap of his mother...a person should remember the backward eyes from the terrors and the hair standing on edge in face of the storm of the night.."

Additionally includes passages regarding the ingathering of the exiles, building the land, the move from fear to strengh and rejuvenation.

The kibbutz was founded on the 11th of March 1945 by members of the Bonim movement from Germany, Holland and England that had been organized back in 1938.

Rare haggada - not listed by Steiner and not in the National Library.

22 pages. 22 cm.

Fine condition.

Non-traditional Haggada. Reproduced handwritten haggada with large illustrations.

The haggada opens with original songs about the spring. It also includes texts that mention the Holocaust: "Like this day that there was never like it for evil since the time that we went into exile. A day of non-stop fears and a lack of confidence in continued life for the survivors, a day that is entirely like a sacrifice - like this day - the day the person was sold to the king, gentle souls rot from the servitude and the fetters of oppression, and the boors and evil rule over all....if our hands are too short to save they are taken to death...."

With texts fortifying the survivors who immigrated to Eretz Yisrael: "We the survivors are responsible for the remnant of Israel. There are no other soulders to carry them. There is no other back for them to hide behind. In the exile, a man of Israel faced Zion. In Zion, a person of Israel must face the falling Israel..." and more.

40 pages. 21 cm. Single papers stapled together at their edges. Missing two leaves at the conclusion.

Marginal tears with loss to the title page and back binding. Spine reinforced with tape. Stains. The body of the haggada is in fine condition.

A non-traditional Haggadah. Large illustrations, some over an entire page. Photocopied stencil printing.

In additional to original texts is an interesting text with the title: "A Day in the Struma Told By One Who Reached Israel" in which a survivor of the ship describes the claustrophobia and suffering which he and others endured aboard the ship: "The morning began at four - five. Only men with a special license could go onto the deck to attain a little water for bathing. The women and children remained below deck. Four people slept on one bunk in the cabins, one hundred and twenty people per room...the children would receive half a cup of milk and one biscuit...the suffering was great, the helplessness became clearer every day, there were Turkish policemen on the boat all the time and the policemen were very excited..." This is followed by verses of a poem about the happenings upon the deck of the ship: "Plundered brothers with no shadow, without a home, the destroyed continent spat them out, imprisoned in naval containers, pushed away from any shores of hope..."

The Struma was an illegal immigrant ship which carried 768 Jewish refugees who tried to escape from fascist Romania and was sunk in the Black Sea by a Soviet submarine. The sinking of all of its illegal immigrants and crew except one was the greatest tragedy in the history of the illegal immigration to the Land of Israel and one of the greatest tragedies of sinking of a civilian ship during the Second World War. The text before us has supremely important historical significance, as there were almost no known survivors from that ship, and it is not clear how this vibrant description of the events on the ship's deck reached the printers of the Haggadah.

There are also texts about the Holocaust: "Now, when not one Pharoah has arisen against us to destroy us, how much more so. Now, more than in any other generation the voice of the suffering of the nation rises. His cry to be redeemed arises from the consuming fire which wrecks destruction upon the entire world... multitudes upon multitudes of oppressed and despondent people are engaged in backbreaking labor, yearning impatiently for redemption...", and more.

[1] 30 leaves. 22 cm. Double leaves. Creases and tears in the margins of the front and back bindings.

The body of the Haggadah is in fine condition.

A Haggadah printed in brown ink with many illustrations. Many original texts were incorporated into the body of the Haggadah.

Instead of 'The Torah spoke of four sons' is a text hinting to the pioneer movement: 'The redemption of the Jews from Egypt came from four things it was freedom from physical oppression, from material suffering, from social education and from the danger of degeneration". There are texts about political independence: "The independence and freedom which we have attained are only one of the stages in the nation's battle for freedom. Our war is against haters and enemies who have yet to come to terms with our political and national independence...". A reference to the Holocaust: "At the head of the festive table also stands the goblet of sorrows full of red wine in memory of those who brought us to this place through their blood." Reference to the State of Israel: "This year, we are celebrating in a free Israel, released from foreigners...". There is an interesting reference to the Arab and Nazi enemies together: "From the enemy's words at the gate, from Dan to Eilat the proud and free Jewish armies stand ready and prepared to protect the nation and the land from any enemy and assassin...how we wondrously beat the enemy, how the Jews prevailed against the seven Arab nations, included and led by the wicked nation of modern Edom..."

There is also a text referring to the establishment of the kibbutz and to Yosef Gardush himself, who did not merit to be one of its members: Today is five thousand seven hundred and nine years since creation, four years since the global massacre and destruction of six million brothers of our nation, three years since the death of our comrade Yosef Gardush, the second year of the State of Israel, ten days since joining the United Kibbutz Movement, we, the members of the Dror group in the name of Yosef Gardush, Hungarian immigrants who underwent terrible suffering in travels though Austria, Italy and Cyprus and in the presence of the representatives of the institutions, friends and comrades, are placing the cornerstone for the point of settlement on the national land in the Galil...we promise to be faithful to our goal..."

Kibbutz Parod is located in the Upper Galilee next to Safed. The founders of the Kibbutz were Holocaust survivors from Hungary and Transylvania, members of the "Dror" movement who reached Israel in April 1947 and were trained in the Dafna, Ein Charod and Maoz Chaim kibbutzes. The members settled in the Kibbutz in 1949. The Kibbutz was originally named "Gardush" in memory of the founder of the group of the Kibbutz's founders in Hungary, Yosef Gardush - a Holocaust survivor who died of heart problems before immigrating to Israel. Over the years its name was changed to "Parod" based on the name of the ancient Jewish settlement "Parod" which was located in this area.

The only Haggadah from this Kibbutz to appear in the Steiner List.

[16] leaves. 24 cm.

A few stains on the binding. Fine condition.