The Passover Seder

By Ruth Gruber Fredman

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452006066
• ISBN13: 9780452006065
• Release Date: August 1982
• Publisher: Plume Books
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

a 80 page book stretched into twice that long

The end of this book has some interesting observations about the Seder, such as her discussion of the Seder plate. She suggests that the Seder plate emphasizes the transformation of nature (e.g. wheat) into culture (e.g. matzoh), just as relevation turned Jews from ordinary homo sapiens into a holy people. But there was far too little discussion of the Seder and too much discussion of Judaism generally. Also, the author's discussion of Seder customs (and indeed of Judaism generally) focuses on the most traditional Jews, and thus fails to adequately describe the Seder as performed by the overwhelming majority of American Jews.