Hagadah shel Pesach - Batei Habonim [Passover Hagadah for Hostels of Habonim Youth Movement]

AUCTION 43 | Thursday, April 02nd, 2009 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 32
(ANGLO-JUDAICA)

Hagadah shel Pesach - Batei Habonim [Passover Hagadah for Hostels of Habonim Youth Movement]

English interspersed with Hebrew. Numerous sketches pp. 19. Mimeographed sheets. Pictorial wrappers. Lg. 4to

Devon: 1941

Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $900
This highly innovative Passover Hagadah (hardly the traditional text) tells the story of the Habonim Zionist Youth Movement of England. The movement maintained its own farm in Kent (“Kibbutz Habonim,”) which served as a training ground (or hachsharah), for Aliyah to Eretz Israel. Afterward, hostels were opened in Devon, at Exmouth, Dawlish and Teignmouth. Groups worked the land, first in Lincoln and then at Chiver's and Haughley in Suffolk (p. 9)