The Passover Haggadah expresses Judaism's optomistic faith that liberty, so often assailed and so often denied, shall yet triumph and become a precious heritage for all mankind everywhere. The Haggadah is indeed a joyous ritual of freedom, celebrating through instruction, worship and song Israel's liberation from bondage. Though the Exodus occured over three thousand years ago, because of the Passover Haggadah no memory is more strongly imbeded in the Jewish consciuousness than the story told herin and lived and affirmed anew in every generation. This edition of the time-hallowed Haggadah in its familiar traditional Hebrew text with a new interpretive English translation was originally prepared for the use of the Jewish men and women in the armed forces of the United States who were fighting to preserve freedom from the onslaughts of fascism. Over a third of a million copies of this book brought to them a heightened dedication to the ideal of liberty doubly theirs as Americans and as Jews.*"May that great hope for mankind born at the Exodus from Egypt live on and find consecration ever anew in every Jewish home with the recital of this Passover Haggadah in an era of abiding peace for all men." David and Tamar De Sola Pool- -April 1947*