Bindiger, Joshua. Machzor LeRosh Hashanah VeYom Kippur, shenath 5702 [Prayer-Book for New Year and Day of Atonement, 1941]

(HOLOCAUST).

Toulouse

1941

Square Hebrew letters with nikud (vowel points). The colophon reads in Hebrew: “Joshua Bindiger, Toulouse” and in French: “Rue Belle Paule 11.” Hand-written mimeographed sheets.

cf. Yerushalmi, Haggadah, plate 162.

Exceptionally rare. Not a single copy traced on OCLC / Worldcat Soon after the outbreak of the Second World War, foreign-born Jews resident in France - especially recent refugees from Germany and Austria - were summarily arrested and interned by the French government in bleak detention camps in South-Western France: Saint-Cyprien, Gurs, Vernet, Argelès-sur-Mer, Barcarès, Agde, Nexon, Fort-Barraux, and Les Milles. Despite severely degraded conditions and isolation from the outside world, an enterprising religious inmate succeeded in clandestinely producing - from memory - this mimeograph edition of the Festival liturgy to be circulated among his fellow Jews. Yerushalmi in his “Haggadah and History” provides in facsimile the final page of a Hagadah written by Joshua Bindiger and issued under the aegis of “S.R. Kapel, Rabbin de Mulhouse, Aumonier des Camps, Toulouse” A more well-known example of this genre is the Gurs Hagadah (sold by Kestenbaum & Company, June 2007, Lot 85). For a facsimile, see B. Gutterman, The Gurs Haggadah: Passover in Perdition (2003).