Black Panthers Passover Haggadah (1971)

Black Panthers Passover Haggadah (1971)

This link presents the original Hebrew and an English translation of the Israeli Black Panthers Passover Haggadah (1971), which shares the struggle of the social protest movement by adapting parts of the traditional Passover Seder Haggadah to reflect the issues of social and economic discrimination facing the Jewish immigrants from North Africa at the time. In a harsh political satire, the Haggadah equates ancient Egypt with the Jewish State of Israel and the enslaved Israelites with the repressed Mizrahi population. Among the adapted liturgy in this Haggadah are the ten plagues that the Black Panthers brought upon the government in Jerusalem, the four sons (the rich, the poor, the Ashkenazi, and the Sephardi), a “dayenu” elucidating all of the social services and rights denied to the community, and “chad gadya” renamed to “one housing project.” Click here to read an article about the creation and content of the Haggadah.