Non-Traditional Haggadah - Kibbutz Givat Chaim 1946

Non-Traditional Haggadah - Kibbutz Givat Chaim 1946

Non-traditional haggadah with chilling current texts relating to Holocaust survivors, the nations ignoring the suffering of the Jewish people, the bitter fate of the Jewish diaspora after the Holocaust.

Passage added to Mah Nishtanah: "Why is our people so isolated and orphaned among the nations? For what and why is it so despised and persecuted? Until when will it wander among the nations with neither land nor sky, dispersed and scattered? Until when? ... For what and why are the gates of our Land not wide open so that the remnants of the sword and refugees of the annihilation can come? Why is the world silent, ignoring their suffering even today, after the war? Why is Israel always first to sacrifice and last to salvation? Why?

Later there is a passage turning to the survivors with a tone of encouragement: "You, remnants of spear and refugees of hunger! Place in front of your eyes only one thing: salvation and refuge. Request the means to metamorphose from the futility of the soul to obtaining a country! Because the children of Israel are not slaughtered for our faith, nor for our evil are we killed, nor for our righteousness are we stabbed, not for the sanctification of the Name are we burnt. All hands are upon us because we are hated ... we will prepare a land for our sons ... for the future generations, for the orphans of Nemirov after twenty years, after fifty years, after a hundred years ..." There is also a passage titled "Who will Give?" which is something of a prayer for the future redemption; a Yizkor text referring to those murdered in the Holocaust: "We will remember our comrades, heroes of the times, martyrs in the ghettos, in the forests, in the cellars and in the depths of the earth, and in the clouds of soil ..." The Partisans' Song and more.

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

[11] leaves. 22 cm. Very fine condition except for stains on the title page.