Schuster, A. Ha-Lachma. Pesach in Dezen [“Passover at This Time.”] Issued by the Chief Rabbinate of Netherlands

(HOLOCAUST)

n.p.

Amsterdam

1946

Dutch text. Printed on light tan pages

A guide to the appropriate observance of the Passover holiday, providing for “de Joodsche Huisvrouw” [the Jewish housewife] lists of medicinal and food products kosher for Passover; instructions for purifying kitchen-ware; and recipes and menu suggestions for the Festival - especially practical at the time, given the severely limited availablity of food due to post-war rationing. A moving tribute to the resilience of the Dutch Jewish community, that so soon after the conclusion of World War II, which took such an inordinately heavy toll of the Jews of the Netherlands (only 20% of a prewar total of 140,000 survived), Jewish life was reconstituted with such devotion to detail. The editor concludes his Foreword: De zegen van het Joodsche leven, trotsch al zijn moeilijkheden, komt van God [“The blessing of Jewish life, with all its difficulties, comes from God.”]