1943 — Original Wraps. 8vo. 19 pages. 22 cm. First edition. Some Hebrew throughout. Torah va'avodah library, no. 2. Dedicated to Moshe Zvi Weinstock. Contains a discussion of the holiday, with poems, selections from the Bible, Midrash, and Talmud detailing Chamishah Asar Bi'Shevat (Jewish arbor day celebrated on the fifteenth of Shevat) . The mother of the Jew is Eretz Israel. The heart of every Jewish child is tied to his holy motherland [
] And when this day comes, the fifteenth of Shevat, the day on which the yemot Ha'Geshamim, the period of heavy rainfall is over in Eretz Israel, and the sap begins to rise in its trees, awaking them to a new spring and new life - pg 5. Bachad was a religious Zionist youth movement in pre-war Germany called Brit Chalutzim Datiim which shortened its name to its initial letters Bachad. Its members prepared themselves for Aliya. A group of them came over to England among the refugees who were permitted to enter this country in the years immediately before the war. They were accommodated in a castle in Wales [Gwrych Castle] and set up Hachshara centres in Bromsgrove and other places, as well as a Merkaz Limmud in Manchester to which members came from the Hachsharah centres for periods of three or six months for intensive Jewish studies. Later on a farm was bought at Thaxted in Essex which became not only a model Hachsharah centre but very quickly a successful agricultural venture which at one time won first prize for having the best milk yielding cow in Essex! (bauk, 2013) . Subjects: Tu bi-Shevat. OCLC lists 8 copies. Wraps previously folded, light soiling to outer margins, internally clean and fresh. Very good condition. (SPEC-40-14)
