related). Passover Seder Services

AUCTION 38 | Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Lot 123

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related). Passover Seder Services

Vivid portrayal on front page of soldier's mess hall decked out for Passover service. Final page formatted as post card with address panel and square for postage stamp. In message area, an enlisted man penned the line: "This is how I spent Passover this year" pp. (4). Light stains. Original wrappers. 8vo

Italy: Engineer HQ, Fifth Army 1945

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,500

This program for the Passover Seder begins with: 1- Introductory Remarks by Chaplain Aaron Paperman. 2- A Message from Lieutenant General Lucian K. Truscott, Commanding General, [American] Fifth Army. "Chaplain Aaron Paperman, a thirty-one year-old Orthodox rabbi sent the first report to the United States about the remaining Jews of Rome. “ See Alex Grobman, Rekindling the Flame: American Jewish Chaplains and the Survivors of European Jewry 1944-1948 [1993], p. 13. Paperman studied in Rabbi Levenberg's Yeshivah in New Haven and later in the Yeshivah of Telz, Lithuania