Hagadah shel Pesach
AUCTION 50 |
Thursday, February 24th,
2011 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Art
Lot 134
(HAGADAH)
Hagadah shel Pesach
Tel-Aviv: Yavneh (1948)
Est: $300 - $500
PRICE REALIZED $650
This Hagadah, published under the auspices of the Sochnut HaYehudit and the Va'ad Le'umi LeKnesset Yisrael, in collaboration with the American Joint Distribution Committee, was for the benefit of Jewish “illegal” immigrants from Europe who had been intercepted by the British Navy and subsequently interned on the island of Cyprus. The British maintained a strict quota system in order to limit the numbers of Jewish immigrants to Eretz Israel.
See M. Laub, Last Barrier to Freedom, Internment of Jewish Holocaust Survivors on Cyprus 1946-1949 (Berkeley, 1985)