Page 19 - Issue 23

In his book “Yehuda Sharet: A Cultural Hero,” Tzur
describes how Sharet dealt with being both an artist,
and a kibbutz member and laborer, due to the many
contradictions between these two roles. There is no
doubt that in creating the kibbutz Haggadah, Sharet
managed to unite these two aspects.

Yehuda Sharet conducts the audience in Yagur (Photo:
Eri Glass courtesy of the Yagur Archive)

"Among the Jews of Germany there was a communist
composer named Paul Dessau, who wrote music and
was exiled to Paris due to the rise of Nazism," Tzur
explained. "He wrote a cantata there for the Exodus
from Egypt. The lyrics were written by Max Brod, and
this was the model for what Yehudah Sharet did.”

“He knew Dessau's work and it gave him the idea of an
ongoing musical work with lyrics from the sources that
make up the Seder ceremony,” he continued. “What
Sharet did affected all the movements and all the