pages from the Offenbacher Haggadah, printed in Germany in 1927
Instead of ending with “next year in Jerusalem, the Offenbach Haggadah concludes with the words: “next year in Worms on the Rhine, our home.”
Some more context: here is the full pdf of the Offenbach Haggadah written by Siegfried Guggenheim: https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/freimann/content/titleinfo/3641281
It combines traditional texts of the Haggadah with stories and translations by Siegfried Guggenheim as well as illustrations by Fritz Kredel.
The L’Shanah habaah B’Yerushalayim section starts on page 75 (p. 76 of the pdf) and it does not replace the phrase next year in Jerusalem - it very much contains it (even instructs you to shout it) and talks about the importance of the phrase. It also includes a map of Erez Israel in this section.
After the blessing of the fourth cup of wine, there is an added story (p. 78 of the Haggadah, p. 79 of the pdf) by Siegfried Guggenheim about a Haggadah in the Germanic Museum in Nuremberg that was written in 1492. In that old Haggadah the Hebrew phrase “Next year in Jerusalem”, was amended with the words “or Brünn.” What the Offenbach Haggadah explains is that the author was likely one of the Jews who were expelled from Brünn/Brno in 1454, fourty years before he wrote the Haggadah (this is not in the Haggadah, but Jews were forbidden from residing in Brno for the next 400 years, until 1848). It is, Siegfried Guggenheim explains, an expression of the authors longing for his old home. Guggenheim clearly emphasizes the parallel between the loss of Jerusalem and the medieval expulsions of Jews.
Guggenheim then says that in his youth they would say “next year in Worms, our home.” It is clearly NOT intended as a replacement for Jerusalem (and would also make no sense as such - as the name of the Haggadah implies, Guggenheim was living in Offenbach, not Worms, at the time the Haggadah was published).
6 years after the publication of this Haggadah, Siegfried Guggenheim was removed by the Nazis from his job as a notary public. After the Reichskristallnacht, he was arrested and deported to Buchenwald concentration camp. In December 1938, he was released from the concentration camp on the condition that he would leave Germany immediately, so he and his wife fled to the United States. In 1941, Nazi Germany revoked his German citizenship. He would never step foot in the country again.
As for the Jewish community of Worms, one of the most significant Jewish communities in Germany (where even Rashi lived for a while), it was completely destroyed in the Holocaust. There currently is no Jewish community in Worms.













