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(HAGADAH, PARODY). Immanuel HaRussi (Novogrebelski). Hametate’s Hagadah shel Pesach [satire]. Includes parodies of Ha-Lachma-Anya, Dayeinu, The Ten Plagues and others. pp. 25. Original printed wrappers. 12mo. Tel Aviv Ha’aretz, 1929. The ‘Four Sons’ have been replaced with the Wise Clerk of the Keren HaYesod, the Wicked member of the Agudath Israel, the Simple immigrant and the pioneering Chalutz who Does Not Know to Ask. ‘Dayeinu’ is sung sarcastically, expressing gratitude for the Mandate, high taxes, and the mislabeling of Eretz Israel as ‘Palestine’. Hametate (“The Sweeper”) was a satirical theater group that operated in Tel-Aviv from 1928 to 1954. The present Hagadah was one of its earliest productions. See D.J. Penslar, The Continuity of Subversion: Hebrew Satire in Mandatory Palestine. Jewish History, vol. 20, no. 1, 2006, pp. 19–40. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20100969.