Non-Traditional Haggadah - Kibbutz Beit Keshet [1946]

Non-Traditional Haggadah - Kibbutz Beit Keshet [1946]

Non-traditional haggadah with illustrations. Calligraphy, copied by stencil.

The traditional "Mah Nishtanah" has been replaced: "All other nights we sit in our scattered places and discuss mundane topics. This night we all sit together in our homes and discuss our freedom." Leaf 25 includes a difficult passage describing the suffering of the Jewish Nation over the generations: "The moans of tortured slaves, of robbed youth, of tens of thousands of slaughtered people, generations of starving children. The insult of depressed nations burnt for the freedom of thought and the conscience ... a complete nation, our nation that wallows in its blood, brought to slaughter, every country was its gallows ... Samson who grasped the columns of the temple in his last heroic stand, the death of the martyrs on the heights of Masada ... what is your bravery in face of the bravery of those who do not have anything, no shield, trampled to the dust and abandoned without hope ..."

Additionally includes some references to events of the Holocaust: "Towns and ghettos are drowning in their blood that flows, is there another remnant? Listen to the voice of the blood ... because one is the blood that was spilled and the blood that flows in our arteries - listen to the blood - it is alive, and it boils. The heart of Israel yet beats with its last bit of strength ..." Towards the end of the haggadah there is a passage that compares the liberation of the Jewish Nation to release from iron chains and more. 

33 pages. 20 cm. Fine condition.