Alef, David [Dovid Alf], text and illustrations

HAGADAH SHEL PESACH IHUD HA-KEVUTSOT VEHA-KIBUTSIM [KIBBUTZ HAGADA. PESAH PESSACH PESAKH PASSOVER HAGGADAH] הגדה של פסח אחוד הקבוצות והקבוצים 

Tel Aviv, Ayelet ha-Shahar. Printed at the Langer Press. ca 1978? Item #42658

Original blue printed wrappers, tied with string as issued, 12mo, [28] pages. Includes many original illustrations 13×19 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates as, Passover Haggadah [for the] Union of Groups and Kibbutzim.”
Non-traditional hagadah. Written and illustrated by David Alef of the Ayelet HaShachar kibbutz [died 1957].
Throughout the Hagadah there are changes to the accepted traditional text. For example it states: “During all other nights we discuss mundane ideas; tonight we speak only about the servitude of our nation and its redemption”, in addition it discusses the national revitalization, “we are the last generation of servitude and the first of redemption…” In addition, supplements written by the author himself and verses and maxims from Chazal related to the exodus from Egypt, but that do not appear in traditional haggadot, are interspersed into the traditional Hagadah text, with illustrations on every page.
Ayelet HaShahar is "a kibbutz in northern Israel acquired in 1892 and settled in the second Aliyah, located on the Korazim Plateau, by the Rosh Pina – Metulla road....The name of the kibbutz, literally 'hind of the dawn', is taken from the first line of Psalm 22 in reference to Najmat es-Subh...the original name of the land on which the kibbutz is located. The land was bought by the Jewish Colonization Association in 1892, and first settled by immigrants from Europe in 1915 during the Second Aliyah period....During the end of the British mandate, the kibbutz was the staging ground for Palmach operations: Night of the Bridges and the bombing of the Yarmuk Bridge (16–17 June 1946)" (Wikipedia).
"No group… has taken the reinterpretation of the traditional Haggadah more seriously than the kibbutz movement, which over the years has produced an estimated 1,000 different versions. Taken together, these Haggadot offer a fascinating perspective on the still evolving social movement. Of all Jewish texts, the Haggadah had special significance for the early kibbutz pioneers because it dealt with concepts important to their ideology: national freedom and socialist ideals… The staggering number of kibbutz Haggadot can be attributed to the fact that few were actually printed; most were simply stenciled in small numbers to be used in a particular year by a particular kibbutz. It was only later that official kibbutz federations published [a] standard version" (Carol Novis, in The Forward).
SUBJECT(S): Kibbutz haggadot. Haggadot -- Texts. Passover -- Liturgy -- Texts. Secular haggadot. Pa^que -- Liturgie -- Textes. Most similar to OCLC 1009145022 (pub. 1978, 1 copy listed, at Harvard, with 53 pages) and OCLC OCLC: 1063653136 [pub. 1953, 2 copies listed (at Fordham and British Lib), with [32] pages]; UToronto also has copies with [32] pages (see for example Druck 448, 461, 541 & 560, see https://archive.org/details/druck00448), as does ours if the covers are counted. We located no other variants in OCLC other than these 4 copies. Library stamp on rear cover, a few stains and marks to margins. Very Good+ condition. Scarce. (HAG-26-1K-XXVV-+).

Price: $225.00