Non-Traditional Haggadah – The "Meshotetei BaCarmel" Group, the "Massu'ot" Troop, the Hebrew Scouts Movement – 1949

Non-Traditional Haggadah – The "Meshotetei BaCarmel" Group, the "Massu'ot" Troop, the Hebrew Scouts Movement – 1949
Passover Haggadah, the Hebrew Scouts Movement in Israel, "Meshotetei BaCarmel" (The Carmel Scouts) group, "Massu'ot" troop. (1949).
Photocopy edition of a handwritten and illustrated Passover Haggadah. The Haggadah first addresses the spring festival and the exodus from Egypt, quoting the Book of Exodus, Song of Songs and poets such as Rachel, Shaul Tchernichovsky and Shimshon Meltzer. The Haggadah then moves on to commemorate the Holocaust and celebrate the illegal and legal immigration and the revival of the Jewish people on their land and the ethos of building the nation and humankind by labor. This part describes at length the heroism of the fighters and defenders of the settlements during the War of Independence, they whose "strength was not only the strength of their weapons; their strength was the strength of the people on whose mission they were sent […] the strength of the people, the strength of the army, the strength of a fighting camp can never be measured only by the power of its weapon. Its strength is measured by the richness of spirit, the extent of its willpower, in the sense of truth and the intensity of its ideals" (Hebrew, p. 23).
These ideas are reflected in the illustration on the cover of the Haggadah, depicting a fighter carrying a weapon and a farmer holding a scythe.
The "Meshotetei BaCarmel" group of the Hebrew Scouts Movement, the first scout tribe established in Palestine, was established in Haifa in 1925.
[1], 28, [1] pp. (including the cover), 24 cm. Good condition. Stains. Pencil inscriptions, including comments for leading the Seder. The cover is re-sewn and mounted to the first leaf and the last leaf along the spine.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.