16. [OCLC Locates Only 2 Copies, None Outside Israel] Strigler, Mordecai. Stenographed by Zvee Scooler; Music directed by N.L. Zaslavski. [Mordkhe Shtrigler] [Zvi, Tsvi Skuler]. Cover designed by Pinchas Schuldenrein. National Committee for Labor Israel

HAGADAH SHEL PESAH TSUM DRITN SEDER FUN HISTADRUT KAMPAYN [COVER TITLE:HAGADAH SHEL PESACH FARN DRITN SEDER] [HAGGADAH PESAH SEYDER KAMPEYN]

Nyu-York [New York]: Aroysgegebn fun Natsyonaln komitet farn arbetndikn Yisroel, 1954. Item #43290

2nd edition (1st was 1953, the year prior). Original Color photographic paper wrappers designed by Pinchas Schuldenrein showing the Israeli declaration of independence (a cover design used on other 1950s-60s editions as well). 8vo, 3 + 25 + [3] pages. In Yiddish and occasional Hebrew with 1-page introduction in English and 3 pages with song lyrics in transliterated Hebrew. Text primarily in Yiddish typescript (i.e. Yiddish typewriter).
Title translates as, “Hagadah for Passover for the Third Seder from the Histadrut Campaign.” With a few photos, illustrations, and calligraphic headings.
Date and edition based on the introduction, which explains the third seder as if it were a new concept to the audience. It continues, “The ‘Hagadah for the Third Seder’ was written under the impact of the great event in jewish history which took place six years ago [in 1948]– the creation of the State of Israel….The National Committee for Labor Israel, in its thirtieth anniversary year, proudly presents the ‘Hagadah for the Third Seder’ to all its friends in the United States and Canada.”

Opens with Chaim’s Weitzmann’s 1941 Speech to the Histadruth in America (?) during the Holocaust, where he tells the labor organization:

I do not want to deny to you that perhaps many of our troubles and difficulties stem from the fact that our work in the Land of Israel is so successful. If she had been less careful, perhaps people would not have looked at what the Jews had done in the Land of Israel with such green eyes, with the eyes of envy. Yesterday…
The former High Commissioner of the Land of Israel, said to England that after the war the groups in the Land of Israel would be considered as a model for the construction of the world. There, he pointed out, forms of life were formed which, after all the crisis and search that Europe is going through, it has not yet been achieved through the sacrifices of the Histadrut and the people who understood the role that the Histadrut played in the construction of Israel….
My few words are enough as a greeting in the difficult and unfortunate time we are living through. Right here, in this country, which is perhaps not yet as connected personally, through people, with the Land of Israel, as you would like it to be.
Your very own want, and as I would want it, and as the Histadrut would want it, just in this country [America], which is led with such great and spirited people…many of the Jewish workers have well understood where their debt lies.
These days I met with an unseen labor leader. I told him that now everyone has to work together for the Land of Israel, he replied that all Jewish workers in America are already working together and that the leftist leftists are all for the Land of Israel….
To the work and sacrifices for Jewish establishment. I know we will still have bitter times. the world, unfortunately, it did not understand that while the dark forces attacked the Jews, they attacked the Ten Commandments, without which a civilized society cannot exist. But the new dark Egypt will also end.
The sun will begin to shine again, and it will shine for us too. But until the sun appears again, we will still have to go through a difficult, long and dark night. At Passover, a count is taken. Today, if I don't move any error, is the foundation of grace in salvation”

The Histadrut Third Seder was a public, communal event organized by the American Histadrut, the Israel labor federation, that took place annually in the United States, particularly in New York City, for several decades. It was a secular Yiddish cultural alternative to traditional Passover seders, using the Seder structure to commemorate events in Jewish history, often focusing on the 20th-century return of Jews to Israel and the founding of Histadrut itself.

The Third Seder was an American, secular, and politically motivated interpretation of the Passover Seder tradition, particularly associated with the Labor Zionist movement, and institutions like Farband. Evolved from earlier educational models, these public events combined Passover's themes of freedom and social justice with socialist ideals and support for Histadrut in Eretz Israel. They featured speakers, Zionist and Yiddish songs, and fundraising for labor projects, creating a unique cultural and political Passover ritual for immigrant communities.
For an interesting history of the third seder, see Jenna Weissman Joselit’s A Passover Do-Over: The third Seder was once an American tradition, with a sense of community and politics that set it apart from the first two (in Tablet, April 5, 2017, https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/belief/articles/a-passover-do-over)
T he National Committee for Labor Israel (NCLI), founded in 1923 as the National Committee for Labor Palestine, was an American fundraising organization that supported the Histadrut, Israel's labor federation. The organization, closely linked to the Labor Zionist movement, solicited funds from American labor unions and Jewish communities to finance the Histadrut's educational, health, and social programs. NCLI also aimed to strengthen ties between American and Israeli labor sectors and promote public support for Labor Israel. The committee eventually faced financial difficulties and dissolved.
“NCLI was headquartered in New York City and oversaw regional fundraising offices in other cities such as Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, and Philadelphia….
In spite of their close association, the relationship between NCLI and the Histadrut was complicated….The labor involved in cataloging and assigning thousands of sponsorship opportunities, transmitting monies between countries, producing evidence of ongoing projects, and attaching the correct names and acknowledgments to finished projects was considerable—especially in light of the fact that the organizations operated in different languages in a mostly pre-computer workplace. The two periodically accused each other of mishandling funds and disagreed about which of them had the authority to resolve their disputes….operations were ceased in 2006” (Center for Jewish History).

OCLC: 713758489 & 1284891527. OCLC locates only 2 copies of this edition worldwide (NLI, Ben Gurion U,), none outside Israel.
Crease to cover at staples at spine, as expected. Otherwise very good condition. Scarce. (B) (Hag-26-12-LG).

Price: $300.00