Hagodeh far Gloyber un Apikorsim [“An Hagadah for Believers and Atheists”]

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $2,500

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author

(HAGADAH)

printer

Tzentraler-Folker Verlag

Place

Moscow

Publication

1927

Description

Yiddish text (with Soviet-style orthography) by M. Altschuler. Six illustrated pages by ALEXANDER TYSHLER

references

Yerushalmi pl.144 and pp.73-4; C. Shmeruk, Jewish Publications in the Soviet Union (1961) no.352 (illustrated); Israel Museum Catalogue, Tradition and Revolution (1987) p.240

summary

An example of the ferocious attack upon Jewish religious practice orchestrated by the Yevsektsia - the Jewish Section of the Communist Party. This violent parody of a Seder service was recited at mock Passover “celebrations”, part of the frenzied seasonal campaigns to eradicate any semblance of Jewish consciousness in the new Soviet Union. See J. Rothenberg, Jewish Religion in the Soviet Union, in: L. Kochan (ed.) The Jews in the Soviet Union Since 1917 (1970) pp.171-76

23,(1) pp., previous owner’s stamps, pages brittle (although unchipped), original pictorial printed wrappers, loose in binding, 8vo

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