A Communist Haggadah: Hagode far gloybers un apikorsim

Date: 1927    Country: Russia    City: Moscow

In the Soviet Union, publication of popular satire was coopted by the state. A small number of parodies of religious texts were created as part of the Soviet Evsektsiia’s antireligious campaigns. In 1921 the Central Bureau of the Bolshevik Party sent instructions to all local branches to organize “Red Passovers.” Popular brochures that came to be known as “Red Haggadahs” were published, specifying how to conduct the alternative Passover Celebrations. Notable among them was this volume - Moyshe Altshuler’s Hagode far gloyber un apikorsem (Haggadah for Believers and Heretics).

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