Passover haggadah. "Cyprus Exile": HaNo'ar HaTzioni movement, 1948.
Non-traditional haggadah, mimeographed, with illustrations. Pages 4-6 contain harsh texts related to the Holocaust: "You chose us from all peoples for the death wagons and gas champers, You wanted us of all generations – as a sacrifice of murder and destruction. You abandoned us to the plunderers, to endless pillage. Our mothers, of pure heart, and their babies, whom You created in Your own image, You did cast as waste in the streets and as a vanquished carcass to be preyed on by beasts…". Also printed in the haggadah are the "Partisans' Song" and the "Palmach Song".
Appearing at the end of the haggadah is an addition – a description of the Seder night in the internment camp: "Surrounded by barbed-wire fences, hearing from afar the echoes of gunfire from the country of our forefathers, we sit by the tables and tell of the Exodus from Egypt… our faith has yet to be corrupted, the gleam of our zeal has yet to be extinguished".
Not mentioned in Nathan Steiner's "Kibbutz Haggadahs".
[1], 15, [1] leaf (leaves 8 and 15 are bound at the end of the booklet), approx. 20X15 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains (mostly to first leaves). Repaired tears and blemishes (an unrepaired tear on one leaf). Trimmed margins, with slight damage to text on two of the pages. Two ink stamps on title page, erased with a marker (with slight damage to the illustration). Back cover missing. New binding and endpapers.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.