Non-traditional Haggadah - brown ink print with illustrations.

The Haggadah opens with songs dealing with the omer. The Mah Nishtanah text relates to the fate of the Jews among the nations: 'How is the people of Israel different from all the peoples, all the peoples are not said to be destroyed from under the heavens and only upon us do the gentiles arise to annihilate ... All the peoples live in their countries and work their land and only we are dispersed among the gentiles ... All the people's countries gates are open to them when they return home and only the remnants of our people knock repeatedly on locked gates.' A passage of poetry by C. N. Bialik appears later: 'MeTehom HaOvdan' as well as M. Katzenelson's 'Hinenu V'Aleinu' and others.

Kibbutz Ein Charod was established in Emek Yizrael in 1921 by people who came on the second and third aliyahs, pioneers of the work brigade and HaShomer's people.

24 pages. 22 cm. Very fine condition.

Non-traditional haggadah. Stencil print with impressive illustrations, some depicting Holocaust scenes. Harsh texts relating to the persecution of the Jews among the nations, the Holocaust, the struggle against the Arab enemy and more.

The "Hah lachma anya" relates to the persecution of the Jews among the nations: "Like hah lachma anya d'achlu avhatana b'ar'a D'Mitzrayim our brothers are being devoured in the countries of their exile. The sun has darkened for them and gathered its light and the land refuses to provide a corner for refuge. The enemy's hand is upon them to obliterate them completely. All roads are closed, there is no escaping the enemy's sword. Kol dichfin v'kol ditzrich - every persecuted and helpless brother should come and celebrate with us. Every refugee of the inferno who has found freedom should come celebrate Pesach with us. Now we are here, next year in the Land of Israel ..."

Aside this is text taken from verses in Prophets: 'Rachel weeps over her sons' and a terrifying picture of a Jew hanging on a gallows beside musselmenn falling on a barbed wire fence.

There is text following the pattern of Lamentations: 'How will we bear all this? Who has a heart to bear it day and night ... the constant mortal danger over the whole world? ... Who has tears to weep the cry of the humiliated and orphaned, over the horrors of a child wandering naked in the forests? ... Who has tears for this? ... How were my babies shattered? How were my daughters forfeited? How were my young men slaughtered? ... How were we killed the whole world over for no sin? ... My brother, my brother, how? ...'

There is also a passage relating to fighters on the various fronts in the Land of Israel: 'As we sit around the seder, we remember our friends fighting on the various fronts against our enemies. They will yet sit with us when the enemy is vanquished and our people is free on its Land, in brotherhood among liberated nations ...' and more.

Kibbutz Givat Chaim was established in 1932 by pioneers from Europe, south of Hadera. It was named after Chaim Arlozorov who was murdered in 1933, about a year after its establishment.

24 leaves. 21x17 cm. Very fine condition.

Non-traditional haggadah with sharp illustrations depicting the cruelty of the Nazis, and long, very harsh texts describing Hitler's crimes in minute detail, the Nazi tyranny and the silence of the nations of the world with respect to the Holocaust, and the locking of the gates to the Land of Israel in the faces of the immigrants, and the bitter lot of those left in Europe. The text of the Haggadah was written by Yosef Dov Shinzon, who wrote the Haggadah during his stay in the DP camp in Munich in 1946. The Haggadah lacks binding and end (bound by other Haggadah from 1944.)

Most of the haggadah is written in Hebrew, with some passages in Yiddish. With the exception of the traditional version of Mah Nishtanah, the entire Haggdah deals with European Jewry and its bitter fate during the years of the Holocaust.

One of the most prominent passages describes Hitler's crimes in language characteristic of Pharaoh's decrees: 'When the righteous among the nations saw everything Hitler decreed and that he is consuming Israel, their great Sanhedrin stood up, and out of great mourning, declared silence ... they stood for a short while mourning and with heads bowed low ... and Hitler sends hungry dogs upon Jewish babies, who tear them to shreds. The same evil man would go on to build gas chambers and furnaces and consume Israel in them. And great is the sorrow among the world's nations. And the righteous among them declare: Who are we and what power do we have to save them from that evil person ... and the people of Israel ask that their babies be saved, they stand and give them over to Christians to hide them, and they hide them from them and demand their pay ... they hide them and find them afterwards to be killed ... and they proselytize them and make them gentiles. And the fathers of those babies are dragged to camps by the murderers where they are consumed by harsh work, starvation and all types of torture and disease. And everyone sees the Jews soaked in their own blood and they pass right by ..."

Later on, there is a harsh passage relating to the bitter fate of the survivors: 'And the survivors gather together from their caves, forests and extermination camps and they come and go to the lands of their exile ... and the Jews flee for their lives, smuggling them through borders and there they rob them of everything they have ... and they go and collect the babies of Israel like abandoned eggs. And there is tremendous controversy, and each camp pulls towards his own... Those who are unafraid kidnap the babies of those who are afraid, and those who are afraid kidnap the babies from those who are unafraid ... and the children stand and argue each digs in his heels and brothers are separated from each other, because they do not come to any agreement ... and they cannot sit together ... and emissaries go out from the Land to the survivors, with all sorts of keys in their hands in order to cause division amongst the survivors and to open their closed hearts ...."

The text which deals with the four sons whom the Torah discusses relates to those prevented from immigrating to the Land of Israel with various claims: 'The evil one, what does he say - is this country too narrow for you that you pressure your way into the Land of Israel ... go with your own powers and build the destroyed Europe. Strike his teeth and say to him: We moved to Europe and they built us gas chambers and cremetoria, they destroyed us with all sorts of cruel inventions, and for this we should rebuild Europe? ... The simple one, what does he say? Will you gather in such a small land? What will become of Yishmael? Say to him ... we are not coming to take advantage of another, we will build our own homes ... as for Yishmael - Israel will not short-change him of his rights ...."

"Dayeinu" lists a long series of decrees, persecutions and pogroms against the Jewish people beginning with the crusades: 'If only we were dispersed among the nations and suffered the decrees of the first crusades, it would have been enough for us ... if he would have given us 'the mark of disgrace' and not given us the decree of the black plague, it would have been enough for us ... if he would have given us the inquisition and not the decrees of 1648 and 1649, it would have been enough for us ... if he would have given us the slaughter of 1919 in the Ukraine and not given us Hitler, it would have been enough for us ... if he would have established the ghettos and not the gas chambers and crematoria, it would have been enough for us ... How much more so, in that all these came to be, we must immigrate, even illegally, end the exile, build the Chosen Land and make a home for ourselves and our children forever.'

In one of the passages there is a reference to the place where the Haggadah was written in the DP camp among the survivors of the Holocaust: "The twelve months of the month of Herut were liberated, and the remnant still lives in Bavaria the state ..." This section refers to delegations from Eretz Israel to the camps, According to She'erit Hapleitah.

Between the pages of the haggadah, there are large pictures on entire pages in linocut style [Signed in print Ben Benyamin - Zvi Miklos Adler - Hungarian Holocaust survivor who decorated the Haggadah with drawings from his personal memory as a prisoner in the camp] depicting the forced labor the Jews endured during the Holocaust and the Nazi tyranny. One shows a soldier with gun drawn and Jews digging a mass grave, another picture depicts a soldier with a whip beating forced laborers and a dead Jew at his feet, a picture of Jews on a death march and a soldier slaughtering them with a few dead lying next to him, Jews standing in line to receive a portion of soup, and SS soldier with a swastika on his arm oppressing forced laborers with yellow patches on their clothes, and more.

[13] leaves. Some of the leaves are detached. Tears in the margins of the title page and the last two leaves. Missing the end of the haggadah [possibly a number of leaves]. missing binding (binding on other cover from 1944 haggadah.) Moderate-fine condition.

Non-traditional haggadah with reference to the events of the period. Stencil print with illustrations.

Alongside original spring pieces, following the phenomenon of leaving kibbutzes after the establishment of the State, an interesting piece appears relating to the importance of living in the kibbutzes, even after the State's establishment: 'And also after the establishment of the State - the kibbutz is the way of the king. It's not a legacy, not an aftermath of earlier periods, and not the creation of a sect of chassidim clinging to the obsolete. The kibbutz is a creation of this Land and its unique conditions ... As long as the Land is not completely inhabited, as long as the entire nation is not concentrated in its Land - the kibbutz is a Zionist imperative ... The kibbutz is the seed of socialism in the Land and the base of its struggles, and therefore is our inevitable reality for the present and the future.'

The haggadah's author attempts to counter claims against the character of the kibbutz which was perceived as intended for minority groups: 'The kibbutz is not a commune of chosen people, not a commune of the poor and not a commune of monks. The kibbutz - is a commune charting the way for the masses and its purpose is the spiritual and material wealth of man ...' There is also a piece which refers to Jewish heroism is the Land of Israel after the holocaust: 'From within the holocaust, the destruction and the horror which came upon our people - we have arisen.'

There is an interesting piece relating to immigration from various countries: 'Kibbutzes and blocks, tribes of Israel are uprooted intact to their countries from their adopted homelands and are newly planted in the ground of the homeland, from Bulgaria and from Yemen, from Poland and from Morocco, from Greece and from Turkey, from Iraq and from America, from Germany and from Austria, from Tunisia and from Algeria, from Iran and from Egypt ... from Chicago ... from Aleppo ...' and more.

[11] leaves. Book jacket. Stains on the jacket. Fine condition.