An addendum to a Passover Haggadah, [Haifa: Achuzat Yeladim WIZO, ca. 1948].
Addendum to a Passover Haggadah, with illustrations. The copy before us was used to prepare a new edition of the Haggadah and to it were added handwritten Hebrew instructions for the printers – marking of passages which were to be omitted from the new edition, instructions regarding the illustrations ("the same illustration", "remains" etc.) and a few textual corrections (the word "our country" in the sentence "we are standing in a time of building our country" was replaced by the word "State"). On the front cover of the addendum, the place and year were added by hand – "Achuzat Yeladim WIZO, Mount Carmel – Achuzah / Passover 1948" (Hebrew).
The WIZO boarding school "Achuzat Yeladim" (Children's Estate) was founded in Haifa in 1939, and it was then called "The National Camp in memory of Sarah Wilbushewitz". At first, the boarding school accepted needy immigrant children and children who survived the disaster of the sinking of the illegal immigrant ship "Patria". In 1942, Benjamin Jonas became the director of the boarding school and the school accepted children whose parents enlisted to the British Army. Today, the place serves as a therapeutic boarding school which accepts children and youth with behavioral problems or emotional/mental disorders.
[5] leaves (possibly incomplete), 17.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Many stains. Loose leaves. One leaf is detached, with small tears along edges. One leaf is cut and its upper part is missing.