Lot 215
Jewish Transportation Unit 468 - Italy, 1945
Passover haggadah. Jewish Transportation Unit 468, Royal Services Corps. Italy, 1945.
Non-traditional haggadah, stenciled, with illustrations. Printed for the Jewish soldiers serving in Transportation Unit 468 of the British Army in Italy during World War II.
Includes traditional passages, up to a special title page: "Masechet Yameinu" (Contemporary Matters) - a text written as a play with characters, a choir, songs and reading passages referring, dramatically and at length, to the Holocaust, The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and immigration to Palestine.
[29] leaves (flawed pagination; without back cover, in other copies as well), 20.5X16 cm. Good condition. Slightly dark paper. Stains, creases and fold to margins of front cover. Tears and light stains to first leaf.
