Bindiger, Joshua. Machzor le’Rosh Hashanah ve’Yom Kippur, Shenath 5702 [Prayer Book for New Year and Day of Atonement, 1941]

Soon after the outbreak of the Second World War, foreign-born Jews, especially recent refugees from Germany and Austria, were summarily arrested and interned by the French government in bleak detention camps in South-Western France. Suffering under severe conditions and quite cut off from the outside world, some enterprising inmates of the camps succeeded in clandestinely producing - from memory- this mimeograph edition of the Festival liturgy. A more well-known example of this genre is the Gurs Hagadah (see B. Gutterman, The Gurs Haggadah: Passover in Perdition, 2003). The present High Holiday Prayer Book was handwritten by Joshua Bindiger and then mimeographed. Yerushalmi provides in facsimile the final page of a Hagadah written by the same individual and issued under the aegis of “S.R. Kapel, Rabbin de Mulhouse, Aumonier des Camps, Toulouse”