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Lot #    23965
Auction End Date    7/7/2009 10:44:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Haganah Haggadah shel Pesah
Title (Hebrew)    לחג החרות הגדה
Author    [Haggadah - Illustrated]
City    Tel Aviv
Publisher    Shalomi
Publication Date    1948
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 19 pp. octavo 240:165 mm. , light age and use staining. A good copy bound as issued.
          
Detailed
Description		    Rare and unusual slightly non-traditional Haggadah issued by and for the Haganah. The Haganah was the underground military organization of the yishuv in Erez Israel from 1920 to 1948. The Entitled Le-Hag ha-Herut (the festival of freedom) Haggadah the cover has a sword piercing through a red wreath, symbolic of the Haganah. The title page has a shield with the luhot (two tablets) at the top and a lave below with the words ha0medinat ha-Evrit between them. All about are flags with stars. At the top is the line today we go out in the month of Aviv, raising the the first cup of our lives. The verso begins the Hagaddah with the traditional text of the Haggadah with depictions, on the right, of a poor enslaved man and on the left of a Jewish pioneer. The text printed in large attractive rust colored letters deviates very little from the traditional text, although at the end is an added reference to Moses as a shepherd and at the end a reference to Bialik. One makes this Haggadah particularly noteworthy is the accompanying illustrations. For example, by He she-amdah is a drawing of four armed men and one woman. Several initial letters are historiated, within initial mems are figurines. The large sketch by the third cup is of a ship with a star of David on it sail approaching a settlement with one building having a menorah on its front. The next page has depictions of five biblical personalities at the top and below, at the sides of armed soldiers, one with the subtitle gebor ha-ghetto. The back cover has a list of shiri Pesah. This Haggadah does not appear in Yudlov’s Ozer Ha-Haggadot.
          
Paragraph 2    לחג החרות תש"ח... פרקים למסיבות פסח [מאת ארגון ההגנה]. (עטר אריה אלואיל).

עמ' 11: "נרים כוס שניה לחיי ההגנה". כולל קטעים מן הנוסח המסורתי בתוספת השיר "קומו תעי מדבר" של ח[יים] נ[חמן] ביאליק. עמ' [1] בסוף: רשימת שירי פסח.

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0301870
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Israel:    Checked
  
Subject
Haggadah:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica