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RABBI NEUWIRTH HAGGADOT

Haggadot belonging to Rav. A. Neuwirth and his son Moshe

Bearing the stamp of Rabbi Dr. A. Neuwirth of Berlin, identifiable as Rabbi Aharon Neuwirth, father of Rabbi Yehoshua Neuwirth, later a leading halachic authority and author of Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchatah.

Neuwirth Haggadot: A Hard Journey from Berlin to Jerusalem

This collection of Passover Haggadot tells the moving story of the Neuwirth family, prominent members of the German-Jewish community. Originally belonging to Rabbiner Dr. Aharon Neuwirth (1882–1958) of Berlin, these books survived the family’s flight to Amsterdam in 1939 and their subsequent years in hiding during the Holocaust.

The volumes bear the personal marks of Aharon’s son, Moshe Aryeh Gabriel (Moses) Neuwirth, a brother of the famous Jerusalem halakhic authority Rabbi Yehoshua Yeshaya Neuwirth (Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchatah).

The history of this collection is shadowed by the family’s wartime tragedy; while Moshe and Yehoshua survived, two of their brothers perished during the years the family spent in hiding in Amsterdam. These books serve as rare, physical artifacts from a household that was fractured by the Shoah, yet determined to carry its tradition forward.

Tracing a timeline of survival through ink and stamps, the collection includes:

A 1938 signature from a young “Moses” in Berlin, just months before the family fled Nazi Germany.
Rabbinic stamps from their home in Berlin NW 87 (Moabit).
Post-war library stamps from Moshe’s later life at 34 Zephaniah St., Jerusalem, marking the successful transplanting of his family’s heritage to the State of Israel.

These Haggadot are more than ritual texts; they are physical witnesses to a family’s endurance, documenting a journey from the “carnage and darkness” of Europe to a new life in Jerusalem.

YUDLOV 3634 HAGGADAH BERLIN 1938

Printed in Berlin in 1938, among the final Hebrew books issued in Nazi Germany prior to the collapse of Jewish publishing. This copy can be placed within the personal library of a Berlin rabbi in 1938, on the eve of the destruction of German Jewry.

NOT IN YUDLOV WARSAW 1884

YUDLOV 3115 Haggadah Krakau 1927

YUDLOV 3507 Haggadah Warsaw 1935

YUDLOV 1447 Haggadah Vilnius 1875

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