Inspired by Ben Shahs' childhood memories, his time spent with the Jews of the island of Djerba off the Tunisian coast and his own mature artistic vision. Color illustrations with text in Hebrew and English with an English introduction and historical note by Cecil Roth on the significance of the ritual in Jewish culture and history.

Vanessa L. Ochs is professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia and an ordained rabbi. Her books include Inventing Jewish Ritual, which won a National Jewish Book Award; Sarah Laughed: Modern Lessons from the Wisdom and Stories of Biblical Women; and Words on Fire: One Woman's Journey into the Sacred. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. The life and times of a treasured book read by generations of Jewish families...

"With this Passover Haggadah, Elie Wiesel and his friend Mark Podwal invite you to join them for the Passover Seder - the most festive event of the Jewish calendar. Read each year at the Seder table, the Haggadah recounts the miraculous tale of the liberation of the Children of Israel from slavery in Egypt, with a celebration of prayer, ritual, and song. Wiesel and Podwal guide you through the Haggadah and share their understanding and faith in a...

Presents the prayers, actions, songs, and stories of the Seder ceremony in a concise format that can be completed in thirty minutes.

Beginning with the most basic questions of how to handle logistics and what kind of Seder to have, Steingroot moves through food and song into text analysis and then to numerology and mysticism. ... Each chapter works independently and provides traditional material. The author encourages Jews of all types to make the Seder their own by understanding the tradition's inner intentions.