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LOT 85:
Non-Traditional Haggadah - Kibbutz Ramat HaKovesh, [1944]
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Non-Traditional Haggadah - Kibbutz Ramat HaKovesh, [1944]
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.
