Originally published in 1927 by the Soviet Commissariat for Nationalities, Haggadah for Believers and Heretics is a radical reimagining of the traditional Passover Haggadah, repurposed as a call to class struggle and socialist internationalism. Written by Moyshe Altshuler, a Jewish Communist organizer, this Yiddish text transforms the Exodus narrative into a revolutionary parable, rejecting nationalism and Zionism in favor of solidarity with all oppressed peoples.Appearing for the first time in English, alongside the original Yiddish, this edition arrives at a critical moment in the global struggle against Zionism and colonialism. With a new introduction by Noah Leininger that contextualizes the Haggadah within the history of Jewish anti-Zionist resistance, Haggadah for Believers and Heretics serves as both a historical document and a living text-one that affirms Jewish liberation as inseparable from the fight against imperialism and apartheid.Essential reading for anti-Zionist practitioners of Judaism, socialist internationalists, and all those engaged in the struggle for Palestinian liberation, this edition restores a lost piece of Jewish radical history to the present moment, proving once again that Judaism and Zionism are not the same-and that the tradition of Jewish resistance has always belonged to the oppressed, not the oppressors.
Originally published in 1927 by the Soviet Commissariat for Nationalities, Haggadah for Believers and Heretics is a radical reimagining of the traditional Passover Haggadah, repurposed as a call to class struggle and socialist internationalism. Written by Moyshe Altshuler, a Jewish Communist organizer, this Yiddish text transforms the Exodus narrative into a revolutionary parable, rejecting nationalism and Zionism in favor of solidarity with all oppressed peoples.Appearing for the first time in English, alongside the original Yiddish, this edition arrives at a critical moment in the global struggle against Zionism and colonialism. With a new introduction by Noah Leininger that contextualizes the Haggadah within the history of Jewish anti-Zionist resistance, Haggadah for Believers and Heretics serves as both a historical document and a living text-one that affirms Jewish liberation as inseparable from the fight against imperialism and apartheid.Essential reading for anti-Zionist practitioners of Judaism, socialist internationalists, and all those engaged in the struggle for Palestinian liberation, this edition restores a lost piece of Jewish radical history to the present moment, proving once again that Judaism and Zionism are not the same-and that the tradition of Jewish resistance has always belonged to the oppressed, not the oppressors.
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