Winner's Unlimited - No. 101
Holy books, letters from Rabbis and Rebbes, Judaica, Maps, Periodicals, Postcards, banknotes, Eretz Israel and Zionism
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The first haggada of Kibbutz Menara, stencil print with simple-styled illustrations.
The Haggada integrates lengthy, difficult texts regarding the Holocaust of European Jewry and the rebuilding of the nation in the Holy Land. "Today is like the day of horrors, the day when sorrowful lordship reigns throughout the world, the day on which the flags of workers have been trampled throughout Europe and the enemy has hurt all those they have captured and capture humanity....how can this abomination exist on blood? How have we been abandoned by G-d and people; how have we been murdered throughout the world without revenge? For no sin!...permission was given to the destroyer to destroy, harm and decimate, the wheel has turned on the scattered ones of Israel. Those who prophesized the end couldn't predict what has happened: a breach worse than all breaches; destruction worse than all destruction...." The text also refers to the Jews in the ghetto: "How can you battle there, those who live in the darkness of the ghetto? Will they have enough strength to carry the burden of their troubles....with what can I bless you with my sister in the house of death - that you will still merit to join us?"
It additionally includes text regarding settling the Holy Land: "The Jewish Nation will no longer be a frightened slave in the Diaspora. The Jewish nation will return to its land, the Jewish Nation will build its country...they were burned, there is no place where we can regress. There is only one way of life before Israel - to his land...we will not abandon our blood!....and you will not frighten us!...there is only one path, in his land to be redeemed! In his one land! Eretz Yisrael! etc.
The Menara Kibbutz was established on the 20th of January, 1943 by a nucleus of youth from the Noar HaOved and a group of German and Poland immigrants, on a mountain, 880 meters above sea level.
The National Library has a kibbutz haggada from 1946. This haggada is not in its collection.
[24] leaves. 16x20 cm. Missing the back cover, professionally replaced.
Fine condition.
Non-traditional Haggada, with illustrations. Stencil print of typewritten material that was partially colored by hand.
The Haggada opens with original, unknown songs about spring followed by text expressing wonder at the story of the exodus from Egypt: "There is no merging of an individual into a group throughout the world and the many generations better than this ancient pedagogical command. Is there a literary creation that better teaches to hate slavery and love freedom than the story of the servitude in Egypt? Is there another ancient memory that is entirely focused on the future...."
It refers to the Holocaust in current terms: "As per this day, that there was never one like it for evil, from the day that we went to exile....this day when we see the seed of Abraham pushed to the ghettos, the splintering of the nation, the emptying of its contents and the black death awaiting it....as I stand I hear a knock - my brother is in confinement, in the chambers of gloom, in the camps of torture, in the desperate pits. As I lay, I hear voices - my brethren pulling flocks to slaughter, the cry of their loss is terrifying. And this is the words of our brethren who are bound in Poland to their brothers who were saved from the flames....homeland, freedom, revenge...."
Towards the end of the Haggada, there are some texts regarding rejuvenation: "We went out to change the face of the world, to put an end to the slavery of humans by humans...seven times we fall but seven times we will arise, because justice is with us and the redemption of man...on the scaffolds and at the stake, in prison and over barricades, even if we fall seven times we will reawaken..." and more.
[31] leaves. 21 cm. Marginal tears to the title page, jacket and back binding.
Fine condition.
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. All the pages have a double border. At the press of HaKibbutz HaMeuchad, Ein Charod.
The haggada opens with stanzas from an original poem regarding redemption from exile. Page 15 features the start of lengthy text relating to exile amongst the nations in general, and specifically regarding the Holocaust in current terms: "We were slaves in every generation and in every place we were dispersed amongst the nations, rotting in the darkness of exile, enslaved for jubilees and jubilees in all ends of the land...tens of thousands of people were slaughtered, generations of children were oppressed for bread, the insult of a depressed nation, burnt for the freedom of thought and conscience....the open war kills tens of thousands. The evil of the world for generations girds its strength for the test of existence...an entire nation, our nation is wallowing in its blood, brought to slaughter. "The entire land is a gallows"...like this day - a day that there was no other one like it for evil from the day that we went into exile, a day of non-stop fears and a lack of trust in the continued existence of all the remnants..."
It later includes passages related to the rejuvenation of the Jewish Nation in its land: "and now we have come up to cast off the yoke of exile and to make for us a new land and new skies with a strong hand and loyal arm, to find a rest for the palms of our feet and renew our covenant with this land...even if seven fall, we will stand up and be encouraged...until the day arrives when our flag will be the flag of the liberated society..." and more.
22 pages. 19 cm. Missing the second title page. The jacket title is stained.
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 Haggadah printed by stencil with simple illustrations.
Alongside the traditional texts of the Haggadah are excerpts from Frishman ["And from the worms you made - man, and from man - a nation, and from the sand dunes - a country"], Berel Katznelson ["A nation commemorates its exodus from the house of slavery for thousands of years throughout all of the tunnels of slavery, compulsion and Inquisition and the persecutions and the pogroms the nation bears yearning for freedom in its heart..."], Brenner ["On this day, of which there has never been such a bad one since we were exiled. A day of ceaseless fears and a lack of faith in life for the remnant which is found...vulgarity and malice have spread their sovereignty everywhere and the Divine Presence will hide its head in a cloud and weep from pain and humiliation..."], Shneur [defiant excepts against Divine Providence "I, the impoverished of deeds return to you Master of the Universe, the court case has yet to end, I will no longer fear...and pious ones will be brought to judgement and the House of Israel are witnesses...we will no longer wait for a redeemer! We will be the redeemers..."]. Bialik, Rachel and others.
A rare Haggadah. The National Library has a later Haggadah from Kibbutz Manara from 1946. The Haggadah before us does not appear in the National Library.
Kibbutz Manara was founded on January 20, 1943 by a group of youngsters from the Hanoar HaOved movement and a group of immigrants from Germany and Poland on the peak of a mountain 880 meters above sea level.
[1], [28] leaves written on one side. Back binding is missing and was professionally restored. 2 leaves are missing from the Haggadah.
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 non-traditional Haggadah in stencil print with simple illustrations.
The Haggadah begins with songs about spring and original reading excerpts alongside traditional texts. The nation's suffering over hundreds of years is mentioned: "We were slaves in every generation and in every place, scattered among the nations, decaying in the depths of the diaspora, enslaved for centuries upon centuries throughout the world. We did not find rest and our lives hung in the balance. The hooligans among the nations arose to destroy us and they defiled our world...".
There are a number of verses which begin with the word "Eicha" and mention the Holocaust: "How [Eicha] were we abandoned by people and God, how were we murdered throughout the world...", a memorial prayer for the victims of the Holocaust: "May man remember the dismembered corpses on the sides of the roads and the body of an old man cast aside, wild and stabbed, and amputated sculls in puddles of brothers' blood...".
There is also an interesting text based on The Four Sons - "There are four aspects of the Jewish People's redemption from Egypt" - which combines the revival of the Land. Paragraphs to strengthen those gathered from the various exiles and more.
On page 20 is a large illustration of illegal immigrants.
A rare Haggadah - not listed in the Steiner list and does not appear in the National Library.
[1] 2-28 pages. 21 cm. Page 9 is missing. Page 24 is partially missing [cut off in the middle].
Stains. Moderate-fine condition.
Illustrated, non-traditional haggada published by the Ichud HaKevutzot V'HaKibbutzim.
The haggada opens with original songs about spring and the Israelites in the desert. Includes texts regarding the Holocaust and the rejuvenation that followed it: "And recently amongst Israel there was the hand of the oppressors of the nations. And they were uprooted from their lands and they wandered from country to country - and he was humiliated and attacked, hated and persecuted, imprisoned in the ghettos....and a few in number got up and immigrated illegally to Eretz Yisrael. And they were determined - pioneers of the desolation - to make flourish and build within it a home for the orhpaned, wandering nation. And they knew the labor of planting and the song of the reapers and they taught their arms to hold bows against their enemy...the land was redeemed. With our blood each gate was redeemed. The State was sanctified with the blades of the swords and the gates of the homeland were opened to gather in the far flung...," and more.
Steiner's bibliography lists this haggada as the first one issued by the Ichud HaKevutzot V'HaKibbutzim.
[30] pages. 19 cm. Jacket title page.
Fine condition.
Non-traditional haggada with illustrations in woodcut style. A. Shavit press.
The haggada opens with original poems regarding the flowering of the land. It later includes texts related to the establishment of kibbutzim in the State of Israel and in Eilat specifically, which was pronounced a city a year earlier in 1959. "This year, twelve years since our liberation, the liberation of Israel in the State of Israel. A column of dawn arose...and again Eilat shown. And a young chick it was, but it flew high. It will shine...Eilat...much has happened since, much dust was moved...and you are light...."
[28] pages. 22 cm. Illustrated jacket title page.
Stains on the back binding. 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.
A non-traditional Haggadah. Printed handwriting with pleasant illustrations. Mafil printing press, Tel Aviv.
The Haggadah begins with original poems for spring. An extra verse was added to Mah Nishtana: "That on every night we tell other stories, tonight - one story". There are additional paragraphs which deal with the sin of the spies, and more.
Toward the end of the Haggadah is a long text describing the developing national fortitude. "..Suddenly, a brave and courageous nation will arise, and their eyes shine, and their hands reaching for swords and they cry: We are heros!...Our hands alone, our strong hands when the yoke became heavy on our necks...and who is our master?...We went out to change the face of the world, to put an end to the man's servitude to his fellow man... When were we born? At the time when the first spark of honor was ignited in the slave's heart. When did we raise the flag? When the first downtrodden one rose up against his oppressor..." and more.
32 pages. 24 cm. Title-page cover. Stains on the margins of the binding. A few stains on the back binding.
Fine condition.