Non-traditional haggadah - Kibbutz Givat HaShloshah - stencil print with illustrations, most of the texts in the haggadah relate to current events - the holocaust of European Jewry in present tense, and internal struggles in the land of Israel.
Among there is a picture depicting a tyrant beating Jews against a backdrop of an image of an elderly Jew and a skull with a swastika on its forehead and text relating to the Holocaust: ' My brothers in the dungeon, in the wretched cells ... my brothers huddled into herds for slaughter ... from cities and towns, alters for sacrifices ... and every man will sue for their deaths, and the sky above will fall weeping over them ... there is no holocaust like the holocaust happening to our brothers in Poland, the disaster and terrors are beyond any imagination and even the horrors of Germany and the annihilation of Austria pale in comparison to the terror of Nazi-occupied Poland, where all routes of rescue are blocked and all traces of hope have faded, Polish Jewry knows that there is great doubt if the sun will yet rise for it .. .' After an original text relating to bringing the omer, there is a segment about WWII: 'The cry of war shakes the world, for over half a year the havoc has continued ... the destruction is increasing at a rate that even the wildest imagination cannot possibly grasp ...'
There is also in interesting segment relating the the HaPoalim movement: 'The Poalim movement is wallowing in its blood ... as if paralyzed, drunk or weak today, the socialist liberation movement among most peoples ...' And texts relating to the "HeChalutz" movement with its attempts to assist persecuted European Jews, and segments describing the struggle for independence in the Land of Israel: 'The ax has been raised over the foundation of the construction of the homeland ... all this while our people are in great distress, with millions of its sons condemned to extermination, derision, persecution, scorn and mischief, much more than in the middle ages' and more.
In place of the "four sons" text, there is a "four questions" text relating to the many fallen victims among the Jewish people over the generations 'How have peoples become wild animals lurking after blood and prey? ... Why has the world become a gallows for us? Why has our blood been forfeit? ... The last page of the haggadah under the title 'To the Entire Jewish People' turns to Jews all over the diaspora with a call 'Arise and defend yourselves!' and more.
29 leaves. 21x16 cm. Lacking front binding. Some stains. Fine condition.
