Printed booklet, Hitler Haggadah, by Simon Coiffeur (Nissim son of Shimon). Work in the literary genre of the Judeo-Arabic translation of the Passover Haggadah. [Rabat, 1943?]. Judeo-Arabic. With printed wrapper.

Short work in the literary genre of the Sharh or Judeo-Arabic translation of the Bible and other books, recounting the liberation of Northern Africa by the Allied Forces and the redemption of Jews from occupation by Germany and its client states, the Vichy and Mussolini regimes.

The Vichy regime applied racial laws forcing Jews into labor; in Algeria, they were even sent to concentration camps and death camps; Tunisia, under German occupation, had many of its Jews sent to death camps; Libya, under Italian occupation, had racial laws applied, and Jews were persecuted and were forced into labor and concentration camps. Upon their liberation, the racial laws were abolished and the prisoners freed. At the time several similar folk compositions were composed, documenting the war and the liberation.

The present Haggadah mentions the suffering of the Jews in brief, while detailing the course of the war at length, from a North African perspective. The French resistance and Charles de Gaulle are the object of special focus, and in humor is evinced in some instances, as in the substitution of "Rabbi Josef Stalin" for Rabbi Yosi the Galilean.

[1] printed title cover, [1] title page, 13 pages, [1] back wrapper. 15 cm. Good condition. Light stains. Original Bristol board wrapper.

A facsimile of this Haggadah with a Hebrew and English translation was published by Mineged, Jerusalem 2021.