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(US ARMED FORCES). The Haggadah of Passover. For Members of the Armed Forces of the United States. Edited by David and Tamar de Sola Pool. Text in Hebrew and English. Illustrated. Ends with the anthems: The Star-Spangled Banner; America; and HaTikvah.  pp. (4), 139, (10). Light wear. Original printed wrappers, upper cover stained and detached. 8vo. Yudlov 3901. New York, Futuro Press for the Jewish Welfare Board, 1943. “The United States is ‘a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.’ The Jewish men in its Armed Forces find doubled inspiration in the time-hallowed recital of the traditional Haggadah…May it bring to them together with sweet associations of home and hearth, the renewed thrill and the indomitable strength born of that ideal of liberty that lives so intensely in every fibre of the American Jew” (Introduction).