Monday, April 11, 2016

Seder Stories: Passover Thoughts on Food, Family, and Freedom

By Nancy Rips

Review by Maron L. Waxman for Jewish Book Council

Everybody has a story, especially a family story. At a senior center in Omaha, Nancy Rips began collecting seder stories—personal, funny, instructive, significant, embarrassing. Over the years her collection grew, and in Seder Stories she records the childhood memories of 101 Jews, familiar figures, friends, and the well-known anonymous. Grouped in chapters that speak to various aspects of the seder, the stories are entertaining in their own right; judiciously dropped into a seder, a sprinkling can provide an allowable leaven of laughter or poignancy. A glossary provides translations of Yiddish and Hebrew words and phrases.

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