Winner's Unlimited - No. 107
Eretz Israel and Zionism, Postcards and Photographs, Numismatics, Posters, Maps, Judaica, Holy books, Letters from Rabbis and Rebbes - Buyer's commission 22%
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Non-traditional haggadah, stencil print with impressive illustrations and current texts.
Aside original songs dealing with the exodus from Egypt and springtime, there is harsh text relating to the events of the Holocaust in the present and attempts to immigrate (illegally) to the Land of Israel: 'And great is the chaos around, and terror around the chaos, and as we pray, which ear will hear ... and we clench teeth and raise fists of anger, on whose head will it land, the chaos will swallow all of them, the wind will carry away, and as they are lost, they will be lost, and there is no other way, we are powerless and there is no support ... waves of rage surround ... the heart is full of anxiety facing a strange enemy world.'
In contrast to these difficult feelings, there is a passage expressing hope: 'They will gather in the land, those lost at sea ... All these, whom no shore in the world will accept except the shore of their land. If there are stray ships at sea with Jewish refugees, their place is with us, because they have no shelter except in this Land. Because the Land of Israel needs everyone who knocks at its gates, loyal and ready to strengthen its settlement ... ships at sea with Jewish refugees will enter the Land, the Land of their national home and they will be with us ...' There is also an interesting passage relating to the coming of Mashiach and more.
Givat Brener is a kibbutz established by pioneers from Lithuania and Volhynia in a group that came together in 1926.
[26] pages, 21 cm. Slight diagonal tear in the corner of the second page on the upper left [lack] without damage to text. Aside from this, very fine condition.
Non-traditional haggadah. Duplicate of typewritten print. Current illustrations and texts.
The foreward contains a passage relating to the survivors of the 'Egyptian bondage' of Europe: 'I am hereby prepared to tell of the exodus from Egypt together with all our Jewish brothers, all the Jews who were encompassed by pangs of death and despised by rivers of g-dless corrupt gentiles who arose to swallow them, and said let's go and annihilate them from among the peoples and the name Israel will be no longer.'
There is a passage relating to the survivors: 'If our arms were too short to rescue those taken to death, we, those who survived, are responsible for what remains of Israel ... there is no back behind which we can hide. The fact is that fate decided we would be standing here, the fate of Israel obligates us to get them to safe haven. It can't not obligate ...'
There is also a passage which relates to the history of the kibbutz: 'This Passover night, 1946, is the eleventh on our soil in Kibbutz Afikim, the fourteenth year from the outbreak of the Jordan river's waters into the soil of the Sea of Galilee and its branches, to water every arid clod of earth ... the night of the Passover seder is the twenty-first in our kibbutz from the day it became a "HaShomer HaTzair" kibbutz. Groups were scattered in the S.S.S.R until they assembled in Afikim ...' and more.
Kibbutz Afikim was established in 1932 by a seed-group of HaShomer HaTzair members in Russia and was called 'Kibbutz HaShomer HaTzair from the S.S.S.R.' also known as Kibbutz 'Netzach' - [Noar Tzufei Chalutzi - pioneer scout youth] from Russia, like the name of the HaShomer HaTzair world movement. It included a group of immigrants from the Soviet Union and from Latvia.
[14] leaves. 22 cm. Stains on some of the leaves. Fine condition.
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 illustrations. Current texts relating to the Holocaust of European Jewry, the silence of the nations and illegal immigration to the Land.
The haggadah opens with original texts relating to the bondage in Egypt. In one of them, there is a picture of Moshe in the image of a pioneer with a walking stick and an immigrant ship at sea. Later, there is an interesting passage relating to those killed in the Holocaust, in the style of the war with Amalek: 'If I raise my hands in faith Israel grows stronger, doubt spreads and I remove my hands and Amalek grows stronger ... piles upon piles are knocked down, corpses are killed and slaughtered, sons' and fathers' hearts are pierced, who will shed a tear over the flesh and blood upon the destruction of the daughter of my people ...' A passage appears later on relating to the ghettos: 'We see the seed of Avraham our father in all the ghettos into which they were rejected, all the disintegration of the nation, its contents liquidated and black death lying in wait for her ... the whole valley of the agony of massive death-throes ... the gentle souls go and rot from slavery and bondage, the poverty and the coarseness and the malice are poured by their governments on all ....'
There is also a sharp text about the silence of the world nations in the face of the destruction of European Jewry: 'And how will the nations continue to harden their hearts together to not see and not understand why we are tortured so and why we are scorned, and why malice rejoices to make us like mud in the street and our dignity like ashes' and more.
Kibbutz Ginosar of HaTenuah HaKibbutzit is located on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, established by youth from the first cohorts of the Educational Center for Workers' Children in Tel Aviv. After ascending to the land in 1936, they joined a settlement of graduates of the first class of the Kaduri Agricultural School.
[24] leaves. One of the leaves is duplicated (printed twice). Stains on the binding, except for this, 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, stencil print with illustrations. Printed on one side of the page [left].
Interesting haggadah with 'reading passages' and 'musical passages.' In contrast to kibbutz haggadahs with a Yizkor text appearing towards the end of the haggadah, in this haggadah, it appears on the first page: 'We will remember brothers and sisters, parents and children who fell in war in the Jewish communities in the diaspora, by sword, expulsion and starvation. We will remember brothers and sisters, parents and children who fell in the disgrace of people and humanity.'
Immediately following this, passages alluding to the terrible results of the Holocaust, starting with the words: 'My eyes fail with tears upon the ruination of the daughter of my people.' 'In darkness I am like the dead of the world ... Death has arisen upon our windows, to destroy a child outside, young men in the street ... because with great ruination has the young woman of my people been ruined, a very harsh blow ... and great is the chaos surrounding, and terror surrounds the chaos, there is no escape ... the chaos will swallow them all, the wind will carry, and as they have been lost they will be lost ... how have our daughters been forfeited? How have our young men been slaughtered!? How have our elders been lost?! ... Ah, they who have burned our children alive, they who have strangled the choice and pure with their filthy hands under harsh waves - Can this blood be avenged and even more be paid? ...
The story of the exodus from Egypt appears after that in the original language, and there are a number of interesting passages under the title 'Dayan din,' 'Mah Yafit HaAviv', 'Kumi Tzei' and more.
Kibbutz Ramat HaKovesh was established in the southern Sharon in August 1932 after seven years of preparation by the 'HaKovesh' group which got organized in a 'HeChalutz' suburb of Vilna and was the first 'Kibbutz HaAliyah' of the movement.
[18] leaves. 21 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, stencil print with illustrations - Land of Israel, 1940s. Unidentified group.
The Haggadah is written in the style of a play with a number of narrators. In a number of places in the Haggadah, the expression 'member of our movement' or 'members of the group' without indicating the name of the kibbutz [or movement] which published the Haggadah. From various passages, it is possible to make various assumptions regarding the source of the Haggadah, but we were unable to identify the source with certainty.
There is an interesting "Mah Nishtanah" text relating to changes which occurred in the group: 'Every night we sit here all together, members of the group and guests ... in the party club and not in our clubhouse which was promised to us from time immemorial ... this Passover we sit, for the first time, devouring and drinking, remembering the quiet and silent ... As in all our meetings, only one speaks, and this time - many! ... As in all the meetings, there are only five, and tonight, fifty-five!' Or, for example, the 'Yizkor' text: 'We will remember the fallen with pride and sorrow, including members of our movement' without mentioning the name of the movement. There are also passages which relate to the increasing immigration: 'They come today, and they are arriving in camps, they come and go from seventy countries in seven days, they come and go ...' and more.
Dust jacket. 17 leaves. Lacking back binding. Brittle brown paper. Detached front binding and last two leaves. Tears in the margins of the front binding. Stains on the binding. Moderate 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.
* Non-traditional haggadah published by the holiday committee of the National Kibbutz - HaShomer HaTzair, stencil print with impressive illustrations by Shraga Weil, HaShomer HaTzair Press, 1955. Aside original texts about spring, passages relating to the generation of the revival which arose among the Holocaust survivors, vs. the generation of the destruction: 'We, too, went out of the house of slavery, the killing valley, and we built an infallible house for the remote of Israel on their land ... for this we gather on this night ... to tell of the redemption of Israel and the liberation of every person from the hand of his oppressors ...' There are two Yizkor texts which relate to those killed in the Holocaust, one deals with 'Remember what Amalek did to you' - the Nazi enemy, and the second refers to the fallen from the ghetto uprisings and the war for the Land, a special passage on peace in the State of Israel: 'Establish peace upon the remainder of the house of Israel and on the State of Israel and the stranger in it ... and for the instigators, quarrelers and warmongers let there be no hope, and may all evildoers perish ...' and more. [18] leaves. Stains. Slight tears in the margins of the jacket. Moderate-fine condition.
* Non-traditional haggadah published by the culture committee of the United Kibbutz written and drawn by Gidon Keich. Undated. Many original texts. Interesting passage: 'I dreamed a dream, I awoke with a scream' about a third of the Jewish people who were killed in the Holocaust 'Very terrifying ... my people of whom I dreamed are no longer ... youth, elders ... also women and children why and for what are they no longer, no longer, my people is no more!' Passage relating to the survivors: 'You are remnants of the bayonet and refugees of starvation! Place before your eyes just one, one: salvation, refuge. because not for our belief are we slaughtered, the Jewish people, not for our wickedness are we killed, not for our righteousness are we stabbed, not for the sanctification of Hash-m's name are we burned. All are after us only because we are hated ... we will prepare a country for our children's children. Not a country for today, which we have already lost, but for tomorrow, for the coming generations.' There is also a passage about the immigrants from Yemen, a passage called 'Distress of the Harsh Days' which refers to the pogroms of the Arab enemy in the Land of Israel and more. [20] leaves. Fine condition.
* Non-traditional haggadah, no indication of location or year. Apparently from the beginning of the 1950s, copy of typewritten print. Aside original songs of spring, there is a passage which refers to the builders of the kibbutz: 'We too left the house of slavery and the killing valley and we built an infallible home for the remote of Israel on their land ...' Poetry passages by Yehudah HaLevi appear, as well as by poets Natan Alterman, C. N. Bialik, the fourth cup is dedicated 'to all the work of our hands, the fruit of the land and the produce of man, to a day of labor and cooperative life, to life and blessing! and more. [23] leaves. Book jacket. Stains on the binding and some of the leaves of the haggadah. Moderate-fine condition.