Sheinson, Yosef Dov. Musaph LeHagadah shel Pesach ["Supplement to the Passover Hagadah"]. With seven woodcuts by Miklos Adler ("Ben Benjamin")

(HAGADAH)

Histadruth Tziyonith Achidah and Nache"m

Munich

1946

Texts in Hebrew and Yiddish, non-traditional text prepared by Yosef Dov Sheinson, survivor of the Kovno Ghetto. Each page extensively surrounded by dramaticaly illustrated borders. The Rabbi Dr. Leonard C. Mishkin copy.

"Issued by the Noar Chalutzei Me'uchad ("United Pioneer Youth") in Germany and reflects the particular passion of the young to free themselves from the shackles of exile and make their way to the Jewish State" (cf. Yerushalmi pl. 178-181). The Hagadah contains heart-wrenching illustrations depicting the parallels between Jewish suffering under the German Nazis and the Hagadah’s story of Jewish oppression in Biblical Egypt. The text has a “gallows-humor," for example, the traditional passage Baruch Shomer Havtachatho LeYisrael ("Blessed is He who keeps his promise to Israel,") now reads: "Blessed is he who keeps his promise to Israel and composed the White Paper and forbade Aliyah" - alluding to the British betrayal of the promise made to the Jewish People in the Balfour Declaration. Much of the text carries a similar biting wit, for clearly transparent is the message to the She'erith HaPleitah in all of Germany's Displaced Persons camps, to resist the temptation of resettlement in the West, but rather focus exclusively upon Aliyah to Eretz Israel. Cf: American Jewish Historical Society, "A Survivor's Hagadah." (Facsimile).