The Haggadah of the Kaifeng Jews of China
A PASSOVER COMPANION Leon Wieseltier • Hillel Halkin • Abraham Socher Marc Michael Epstein • Vanessa L. Ochs • Yehudah Mirsky and more JEWISH REVIEW of BOOKS A Passover Companion JEWISH REVIEW OF BOOKS 1 A PASSOVER COMPANION JEWISH REVIEW OF BOOKS The Jewish Review of Books (Print ISSN 2153-1978, Online ISSN 2153-1994) is a quarterly print publication with an active online presence for serious readers with Jewish interests published by Bee.Ideas, LLC. New York, NY Copyright © by Bee.Ideas, LLC. www.jewishreviewofbooks.com All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Bee.Ideas, LLC. ISBN-13:978-1-941678-03-9 A PASSOVER COMPANION JEWISH REVIEW of BOOKS Contents 5 Introduction by the Editors 6 Why Is This Haggadah Different? by David Stern 10 Comes the Comer by Leon Wieseltier 18 Passover on the Potomac by Vanessa L. Ochs 23 Pour Out Your Fury by Philip Getz 27 The Fifth Question by Chaim Saiman 30 Frogs, Griffins, and Jews Without Hats: How My Children Illuminated the Haggadah by Marc Michael Epstein 35 Chopped Herring and the Making of the American Kosher Certification System by Timothy D. Lytton 39 Law in the Desert by Hillel Halkin 46 Desert Wild by Shai Secunda 50 Let My People Go by Yehudah Mirsky 54 The Kid from the Haggadah by Nathan Alterman 55 It’s Spring Again by Abraham Socher Introduction Dear Readers, Aside from the sweeping, scrubbing, buying, and cooking, preparing for Passover often involves the rediscovery of old treasures: family china, a wobbly cup of Elijah someone made in first grade, a second-generation Seder plate, favorite haggadot and commentaries, and, perhaps, some plastic frogs to illustrate the second plague.
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