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(HAGADAH, PARODY). (ZIONISM). Der Tzionstishe Seder (The Zionistic Seder). Authored by ‘The Pshemishel Zionist’. pp. 32. Browned. Later wrappers. 12mo. Przemysl Viktor Mermelstein, 1894. While certainly not a formal Hagadah itself, this impassioned appeal for the Zionist cause, riffs off classic texts from the Passover service. For example, the “Incident (Ma’aseh) with Rabbi Elazar ben Azarya” has been altered to the “Incident with Rabbi Eliezer Ben-Yehuda.” The Four Questions have been replaced with: “Why do all other nations have their own land, language, productive trades and heritage while the Jewish people do not?” Ultimately, the text suggests, the Jews must redeem themselves from “modern-day Egyptian oppression of European anti-Semitism” with “A mighty hand and outstretched arm” by returning to the Land of Israel.