The Passover Haggadah
- Author Vanessa L. Ochs
- Narrator Suzanne Toren
- Publisher Recorded Books, Inc.
- Run Time 5 hours and 34 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Judaism: life and practice.
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What to expect
Every year at Passover, Jews around the world gather for the seder, a festive meal where family and friends come
together to sing, pray, and enjoy traditional food while retelling the biblical story of the Exodus. The Passover
Haggadah provides the script for the meal and is a religious text unlike any other. It is the only sacred book available in
so many varieties—from the Maxwell House edition of the 1930s to the countercultural Freedom Seder—and it is the
rare liturgical work that allows people with limited knowledge to conduct a complex religious service. The Haggadah
is also the only religious book given away for free at grocery stores as a promotion. Vanessa Ochs tells the story of this
beloved book, from its emergence in antiquity as an oral practice to its vibrant proliferation today.
Ochs provides a lively and incisive account of how the foundational Jewish narrative of liberation is remembered
in the Haggadah. She discusses the book’s origins in biblical and rabbinical literature, its flourishing in illuminated
manuscripts in the medieval period, and its mass production with the advent of the printing press. She looks at
Haggadot created on the kibbutz, those reflecting the Holocaust, feminist and LGBTQ-themed Haggadot, and even
one featuring a popular television show, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Ochs shows how this enduring work of liturgy
that once served to transmit Jewish identity in Jewish settings continues to be reinterpreted and reimagined to share
the message of freedom for all.
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