Passover Seder

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

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author

(HAGADAH).

Place

Persian Gulf, Persian Gulf Command

Publication

1944

Description

Untraditional English text, few words in Persian and Arabic. With military insignia. Prepared by the Persian Gulf Command Chaplain Ralph M. Weisberger. Order of the Service (Hagadah) comprising several responsive readings with texts in English and Hebrew transliterated into English

references

Unrecorded, although see Judaica-Jerusalem, March, 1991 Lot 263

summary

Introduction by the Persian Gulf Command: “The Undying Message of this Night." Includes humorous menu and greeting "L'shana Haba'ah b-USA" ("Next Year in the USA"). During the course of World War Two, the Persian Gulf Command was a United States Army service-command established in December 1943 to assure the supply of U.S. lend-lease war material to the Soviet Union

Seven mimeographed sheets. Browned. pp. 3-7 creased. p. 7 lightly stained. Modern boards. Folio

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