Arthur Szyk originally intended his Passover story of persecution and deliverance (told through the traditional text of the Haggadah) to be a strong statement against the Nazis, but no publisher in his native Poland dared take on a project with strong anti-Nazi iconography. He ultimately found a publisher in England. This French-language dedication page--which shows the ancient Jewish heroine Judith with the head of the villain Holofernes--reads: "I am but a Jew praying in art; if I have succeeded in any measure, if I gained the power of reception among the elite of the world, then I owe it all to the teachings, traditions and eternal virtues of my People.”