The Jewish Chronicle

BREAD OF THE AFFLICTED

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‘Eating Matzo’ from a Haggadah published in Vienna in 1928, and included in the National Library of Israel’s “Passover Memories” project, which shares personal memories from prominent figures who have celebrated Pesach under “normal” and not-so-normal circumstan­ces. The project includes Natan Sharansky’s recollecti­ons of his first Passover Seder, held under the watchful eye of the KGB, and a subsequent “celebratio­n” in the Gulag, where he was a political prisoner for nearly a decade. Sharansky, who would go on to serve in four Israeli cabinets, remembered his spirit being strengthen­ed in solitary confinemen­t as he recalled one particular line from the Passover Haggadah, “This year we are slaves, next year free men; this year we are here, and next year in Jerusalem.”

 ?? PHOTO: NATIONAL LIBRARY OF ISRAEL COLLECTION ??
PHOTO: NATIONAL LIBRARY OF ISRAEL COLLECTION

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