Passover Haggadah. [Budapest]: HaOved HaKibbuci Dror HaBonim in Hungary, [1946].Dedication from eve of Passover 1947. Hebrew and Hungarian.
Non-traditional Haggadah, in Hebrew and Hungarian, with many illustrations (illustrations by "Zvi Cohen - Moshe Steiner", signed in the plate on the last page). The illustrations depict the immigration to Palestine as a direct continuation of the Exodus from Egypt; and on the other hand, Jews entering a concentration camp (KZ), their souls flying out of crematoriums’ chimneys, alongside an illustration of "Vayeanunu" [And we were tortured] from Egypt. The British are portrayed in one illustration as an enemy in the form of a snake with flags of Britain on its back, climbing up a pole on which appears the flag of Israel.
A handwritten dedication appears on the title page: "To Hannah – from 'Dror Habonim', 'Haoved Hakibbuci', Eve of Pesach 1947".
[1] Title page-cover, [29] leaves, 20 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor blemishes to margins of a number of leaves. Creases. Blemishes and tears to spine.
Not listed in Aviram Paz’s book "Exodus from Egypt in Days of Yore, in Recent Times, Selection of Rare Passover Haggadahs from the 1940s…" (Kibbutz Dalia, 2015).

Passover Haggadah. Published by the festivities committee, Palestine General Transport Coy 650. Italy, 1944.
A non-traditional Haggadah with illustrations, printed for Jewish soldiers who served in the Transport Company 650 of the British Army in Italy, in World War II.
Alongside passages of the traditional text, appear prose and poems about the war, the persecution of the Jewish people, fighting in Europe, the struggle against the British, and the hope for revival in Palestine. The Haggadah opens, following the Kidush and songs, with an introduction focusing on commemorating the victims and the Ghetto rebellions, the Partisans and Stalingrad fighters, and the struggle against the "White Book", and it ends with the passage: "On this continent where we were among the first occupiers and defeaters of a tyrant regime as part of the fifth camp – a Jewish military entity was formed, pioneer of Palestinian volunteers who only wished to eliminate the enemy of nations and expedite the redemption of the people in its land of hope". The Haggadah ends with "HaTikva".
The text is accompanied by illustrations, part of which relate to the traditional Haggadah and part of which are contemporary – agriculture, settlement, fighting and the longed-for defeat of the Nazis. On the cover appears the emblem of the unit – a Star of David with hands in it, pointing at the hour 6:50 - the unit's number.
37 pp (mispagination), 20.5X15.5 cm. Non-uniform page size. A number of pages trimmed with some small loss. Creases. Some stains. Small tears to margins of leaves. Nylon cover.
Not in NLI and not listed in Aviram Paz's book, "Exodus from Egypt in Days of Yore, in Recent Times, Selection of Rare Passover Haggadahs from the 1940s…" (Kibbutz Dalia, 2015).
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.

Woman, figurine by Eva Samuel.
Painted clay, glazed. Signed: "Eva Samuel".
Height: approx. 31 cm. Good condition. Slight defects to base.

A medal minted to commemorate a decree issued by Emperor Franz Joseph granting some of the Jews in his domain the right to purchase land. [Vienna, 1860]. The medal is placed in decorated box, in which it was given as a souvenir to the Jewish community of the town Gura Humorului (today in North Romania), ca. 1861.
Silver-plated medal. Obverse: a relief of a woman holding a scroll with the Hebrew legend "Din Echad Le'Am Echad" (One Law for One People) [spelling error in the Hebrew word דין, Din]. Facing her is a youth holding a bouquet. Between them is an altar with the portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph, surmounted by the Tablets of the Law with the Hebrew legend "One law will be for all of us". Surrounding the relief is a German legend. On the bottom part is the legend "Thanks to Your Highness Emperor Franz Joseph I, the Jews throughout the Austrian Empire have been Granted the Right to Own Lands" (German). Reverse: the text of the decree published in February 1860. Signed: "Pr. Seidan (Vienne)".
The medal is inserted in an original box, with a decorated lid attached by a joint. On the outside of the lid is a medallion; at its top is a crown and on its sides are lions. Inside the medallion is a Star-of-David with the Hebrew inscriptions "This memory will be a sign for a covenant forever, amen", and "Made and finished well for the city of the holy community in the year of 'I will resurrect my covenant between me and you'" (in gematria this is the year 5622 – 1861/1862). The inner side of the lid is lined with fabric inscribed in German with a gilt inscription: "Gewidmet der Ehrsamen Isr:Cultus-Gemeinde in Gorahumora" [Dedicated to the Jewish Community in Gura Humorului].
An identical medal appears in the Bezalel Narkis Index of Jewish Art. It is inserted in a box like that of the present item and dedicated to the Jewish community of Pilsen (Czech Republic). See enclosed material.
Diameter of medal: 75 mm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. Diameter of box: 87 mm. The box is damaged, with stains, tears and missing pieces. Stains, tears and blemishes to the box's lining. The German inscription is somewhat faded.