Israel inhabitant library buys singular Korea War Haggadah from 1952

As a owners of a world’s largest collection of haggadot, a National Library of Israel is no foreigner to surprising versions of a content that Jews review on Passover.

Among a library’s 10,000-odd haggadot is a Prague Hagaddah from 1556, of that usually dual copies exist. And a even comparison Rothschild Hagaddah from 1450, that was created in Italy on vellum so ethereal that it’s kept in a dim safe (unusually, a library in Jerusalem put that Haggadah on arrangement this year, though usually for dual days.)

Yet one of a library’s many special haggadot is younger than a institution’s chairman, 74-year-old David Bloomberg.

Dubbed a Korean War Haggadah, a pamphlet from 1952 was recently purchased by a library since it is “extremely rare,” a museum pronounced in a statement. It did not contend how most a 32-page pamphlet cost.

Printed in Korea for a use of US troops crew fighting there, it was initial used in a seder, a normal Passover meal, orderly by dual Jewish chaplains who were also obliged for producing a Haggadah.

Jewish soldiers from opposite Korea were given permit and ecstatic to that seder.

The book’s cover is flashy with hand-drawn insignias of a categorical troops units concerned in a seder. The escutcheon of a Jewish chaplaincy appears in a middle. The seder’s menu includes ‘Gefuelte Fish’, ‘Chicken Soup aux Kneidlach’, and 3 forms of wine, including ‘Manischewitz California State’.

One page includes inverted Hebrew text, maybe demonstrating a hurdles of operative with printers unknown with Hebrew.