Hagodeh far Gloyber un Apikorsim [“An Hagadah for Believers and Atheists”]

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Lot 159

(HAGADAH)

Hagodeh far Gloyber un Apikorsim [“An Hagadah for Believers and Atheists”]

Yiddish text (with Soviet-style orthography) by M. Altschuler. Six illustrated pages by ALEXANDER TYSHLER 23,(1) pp., previous owner’s stamps, pages brittle (although unchipped), original pictorial printed wrappers, loose in binding, 8vo Yerushalmi pl.144 and pp.73-4; C. Shmeruk, Jewish Publications in the Soviet Union (1961) no.352 (illustrated); Israel Museum Catalogue, Tradition and Revolution (1987) p.240

Moscow: Tzentraler-Folker Verlag 1927

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,500

An example of the ferocious attack upon Jewish religious practice orchestrated by the Yevsektsia - the Jewish Section of the Communist Party. This violent parody of a Seder service was recited at mock Passover “celebrations”, part of the frenzied seasonal campaigns to eradicate any semblance of Jewish consciousness in the new Soviet Union. See J. Rothenberg, Jewish Religion in the Soviet Union, in: L. Kochan (ed.) The Jews in the Soviet Union Since 1917 (1970) pp.171-76