Auction 7 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Capua – Italy, 1946 – 179th company for general transportation

Opening: $600
Sold for: $750
Including buyer's premium
Pesach Haggadah, Capua-Italy, [1946]. 179 – Palestine company for general transportation – Caserta (Italy).
Non-traditional Haggadah with impressive illustrations. Passages from the traditional version together with reading passages and poems.
It opens with: “This Haggadah is presented to the people of our unit and to the visitors dining with us, in the hope that this Seder – the third for us on Italian soil – will be the last for us in a foreign country. Our hope is to return soon to our homeland and build a home for ourselves and for the many who are spread out and who yearn for it.” It concludes with “Hatikvah.”
21 pages, 14x18 cm. Good condition. Stained on the cover and first and last pages, and creased.
Haggadas, Non-Traditional Haggadas, Purim and Humor
Haggadas, Non-Traditional Haggadas, Purim and Humor