Seder Feier 5701 [Seder Celebration 1941]. Bay Hotel, Ramsey. Mooragh Internment Camp

AUCTION 37 | Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 87
(HAGADAH)

Seder Feier 5701 [Seder Celebration 1941]. Bay Hotel, Ramsey. Mooragh Internment Camp

Hand-written mimeographed sheets. Title in English and Hebrew. Text in German On first page, illustration of traditional Seder plate. pp. 4 + 4 integral blanks. Tattered around edges. Loose as issued. 4to

Mooragh Internment Camp (Isle of Man): 1941

Est: $1,200 - $1,800
PRICE REALIZED $1,400
Mooragh Internment Camp, Ramsey, on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea, was established by the British government for “enemy aliens,” i.e. German and Austrian Jews seeking asylum in England. Small hotels and boarding houses along the promenade by Mooragh were requisitioned to form an internment camp. See T.M. Endelmann, The Jews of Britain 1656 to 2000 (2002), p.224. Rather than a Hagadah per se, we have on p.2 a precise outline of the various steps in the religious ceremony of the Seder. Page 3 consists of a rather meager menu for the first two days of Passover with the de jure Matzah and “Palästina Weine." The fourth and final page is an expression of thanks to individuals who made possible the festive celebration: Messrs. Bamberger, Bondi, Domowitz, Gerstle, Kramarsky, Norden, Ochs, et al