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The Haggada of Passover by Abraham Regelson, 8 color litho by Siegmund Forst, 1941, NY - The Haggada of Passover by Abraham Regelson, 8 color litho by Siegmund Forst, 1941, NY NY, 1941. 42 pp., 8 color lithographs on separate plates and many b/w linocuts full page and in text by Siegmund (Asher) Forst New translation by Abraham Regelson Illustrated by the well-known artist Siegmund (Asher) Forst. Copyright by Zevi Scharfstein, Hard calico gold stamped cover, size: 31.5 x 23.5 cm. Condition: some wear, rubbing and soiling to cover, corners bumped; brown stains to edge and near to many pages Weight: 580 gr. Siegmund Forst was born in Vienna in 1904. He immigrated to the US in 1939, where he designed graphics for Hebrew textbooks and Haggadot. Abraham Regelson was born in Hlusk, now Belarus, in the Russian Empire in 1896, and died at his home in Neveh Monossohn, Israel in 1981. His parents were Yehuda Zeev Regelson and Rashel Ozick. He is the maternal uncle of Cynthia Ozick. Regelson emigrated with his family to the United States when he was nine years old. He studied at a heder and public schools. He never finished formal studies, but was an autodidact who spent many hours in libraries