Auction 31 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Tenth of Nissan "Seder Avoda" and Fasting Laws – Warsaw, 1948
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Tenth of Nissan Day "Seder Avoda" [on behalf] of the Communities Committee and Rabbis Council in Poland. Ogniwo printing press, Warsaw, 1948.
Booklet issued for Tenth of Nissan 19.4.1948. Includes a "Proclamation for Jewish Communities all over Poland" (in Hebrew and Yiddish), "Seder Avodat HaYom", fasting laws for Tenth of Nissan 1948 and a eulogy poem by Leib Bialer, "Eli Warsaw!".
From the proclamation: "my eye sheds water for the extinction of one third of our people in Europe…in the meanest and most cruel ways, old and young, men, women and children…and the demolition of synagogues…the rabbis of Poland conferred and decided to declare the Tenth of Nissan of this year as a fasting day…".
8 pp, 21.5 cm. Good condition. Folding-marks, tears and minor stains. Half-sheet folded into four, not cut and not bound.
Booklet issued for Tenth of Nissan 19.4.1948. Includes a "Proclamation for Jewish Communities all over Poland" (in Hebrew and Yiddish), "Seder Avodat HaYom", fasting laws for Tenth of Nissan 1948 and a eulogy poem by Leib Bialer, "Eli Warsaw!".
From the proclamation: "my eye sheds water for the extinction of one third of our people in Europe…in the meanest and most cruel ways, old and young, men, women and children…and the demolition of synagogues…the rabbis of Poland conferred and decided to declare the Tenth of Nissan of this year as a fasting day…".
8 pp, 21.5 cm. Good condition. Folding-marks, tears and minor stains. Half-sheet folded into four, not cut and not bound.
Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita
Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita