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(PARODY). Baruch Halevi Yafith. Mein Zeydeh's Hagodeh, oder a Pogrom oyf dem Afikoman [satirical Passover Hagadah]. With notes by ”Ma'aseh Alfas” [pseudonym of Benzion Alfas] FIRST EDITION. Yiddish text. pp. 40. Browned. Original marbled boards. 8vo. Vilna: Rosenkranz and Schriftsetzer 1908 A celebration of Jewish history through the ages and the miracle of Jewish survival despite recurrent anti-Semitism. Footnotes in Hebrew refer to Rabbinic literature. The author, Benzion Alfas (1850-1940), was a student of the famed ”kibbutz” of Eishishok and of the Gaon's kloiz in Vilna. See Leksikon fun der Nayer Yidisher Literatur, Vol. I (1956) cols. 118-120. A celebration of Jewish history through the ages and the miracle of Jewish survival despite recurrent anti-Semitism. Footnotes in Hebrew refer to Rabbinic literature. The author, Benzion Alfas (1850-1940), was a student of the famed ”kibbutz” of Eishishok and of the Gaon's kloiz in Vilna. See Leksikon fun der Nayer Yidisher Literatur, Vol. I (1956) cols. 118-120.