Auction 112 Eretz Israel and Zionism, Anti-semitism, World War II and refugees, Postcards and Photographs, Posters, Maps, Judaica, Seforim, Letters from Rabbis and Rebbes
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Jan 21, 2019
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LOT 91:

Non-Traditional Haggadah - Gaaton Group, 1947

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Non-Traditional Haggadah - Gaaton Group, 1947

Stencil print with illustrations, reference to current events and the history of the Gaaton group before it formed into the Naot Mordechai kibbutz. Rare, one-time haggadah published within the group.

The haggadah opens with a text commemorating the victims of the destruction: "From the blood of young and old and the honor of the holy peoples of Tarshish who fell casualty ..." The Mah Nishtanah text expresses the yearning for freedom: "All other nights, the thoughts and worries of all of Israel revolve around an existential war. This night the longing and thoughts of Israel ... recall their past redemption and the yearning for their future redemption which will arise and be established ... there is no generation in Israel who did not know scorn and the disgrace of slaves ... and there is no generation in which the desire did not arise to have a life of freedom and honor ..."

There are a number of interesting passages relating to the history of the members of the group and their yearning to form a kibbutz: "In previous years, the members of our kibbutz, from their dispersion throughout the Land, met to sit together as brothers. This year we are seated at a seder in two camps. All previous nights of Passover, we sat with our bundles on our backs with the anticipation of the decisive event of our lives, settlement. This year, we set up home in the Hula lands, in which we will build a home and farm for ourselves and our children, a refuge for the far-flung of Israel. And in the hearts of those sitting in the two camps, there is one hope: to sit together in our home next year. And it was in the month of Cheshvan, on the eighth of the month, people from all the Galilee settlements were accepted to Kfar Blum, and you, the members of the Gaaton group will arise to inherit the left bank of the Jordan and to establish a new settlement called Naot Mordechai ... the work began to the light of oil lamps ... the work was carried out fervently and did not stop even when the first shots rang out. In the morning, altercations broke out on the lands bordering Kfar Zoya, and as the shots increased, the wounded in our camp increased. Shlomo Bentov was wounded in the field and died of his wounds on the way. Shlomo Ben-Yehudah was killed in the camp. With the first shots, the workers concentrated primarily on establishing fortifications and filling sand bags, and when the police arrived, and then the army, the base of the camp stood on its hill and the main area was plowed ..."

There is also an original text by Yitzchak Shalev, entitled "For Those Who Walk in Many Waters - A Prayer" to the meter of the Song of the Sea, and more.

22 pages. 21 cm. Fine condition. Partially detached back binding.


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