Hagadah shel Pesach BeGeirush Caphrisin 5708

Rare Hagadah from Cyprus Detention Camps. An Understandably Primitive Production. Internment camps in Cyprus were operated by the British for the indefinite detention of Jewish immigrants who attempted to run the British blockade of the Palestinian coastline and enter the Land of Israel in violation of immigration quotas set for Jews. Inmates consisted almost entirely of deeply traumatized Holocaust survivors including large numbers of orphan children. Conditions were hard, lacking running water and inadequate food supplies. Funds for maintenance of the camps were taken from taxes collected from the Jewish population of Palestine. Even after the establishment of the State of Israel, the British government continued to hold Jewish men of military age and their wives, in order to prevent them joining the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. They were eventually released in February 1949, following the British government's decision to recognize the State of Israel. The plight of the Cyprus detainees was immortalized in the film "Exodus." The present Hagadah contains the traditional text augmented by the poems of Chaim Nachman Bialik and Saul Tchernichovsky, and the thoughts of Nachum Sokolow and Berl Katzenelson Information retrieved from: www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus_internment_camps. See also M. Laub, Last Barrier to Freedom, Internment of Jewish Holocaust Survivors on Cyprus 1946-1949 (Berkeley 1985)