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COOKBOOKS

The Complete Passover Cookbook
Frances R. Avrutick / Hardcover / 1981

Let My People Eat!: Passover Seders Made Simple
Zell Schulman, Herbert Bronstein / Hardcover / 1998

The New York Times Passover Cookbook: More Than 200 Holiday Recipes from Top Chefs and Writers
Linda Amster(Editor), Joan Nathan / Hardcover / 1999

No Cholesterol Passover Recipes
Debra Wasserman, Janet Steinberg (Illustrator) / Paperback / 1995

Passover Desserts
Penny Wantuck Eisenberg / Hardcover / 1996

The Passover Table: New and Traditional Recipes for Your Seders and the Entire Passover Week
Susan R. Friedland, Penina (Photographer) / Paperback / 1994

Matzah Meals: A Passover Cookbook for Kids
Judy Tabs, et al / Paperback / 1985

 

 

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HAGGADOT
Those marked with button are especially recommended.

The Ashkenazi Haggadah: A Hebrew Manuscript of the Mid-15th Century from the Collections of the British Library
Joel Ben Simeon, David Goldstein (Introduction) / Hardcover / 1997

button The Family Haggadah
Ellen Schecter(Editor), Neil Waldman (Illustrator) / Paperback / 1999

Gates of Freedom: A Passover Haggadah
Chaim Stern, et al / Paperback / 1996

button Haggadah for the Liberated Lamb
Roberta Kalechofsky / Paperback / 1988

The Illuminated Haggadah: Featuring Medieval Illuminations from the Haggadah Collection of the British Library
Michael Shire / Hardcover / 1998

button The Journey Continues: The Ma'yan Passover Haggadah
Tamara R. Cohen(Editor), et al / Paperback / 1997 -- also see accompanying music CD

A Passover Haggadah
Elie Wiesel, Mark Podwal (Illustrator) / Paperback / 1993

Passover Haggadah With a Traditional and Contemporary Commentary
Shlomo Riskin / Paperback / 1984

Promised Land Haggadah
Lynn Lebow Nadeau / 1998

button San Diego Womens Haggadah
Jane Zones / Paperback / 1986

button The Santa Cruz Haggadah
Karen G.R. Roekard / Paperback / 1992
Leader's Edition
Participant's Copy

A Sephardic Passover Haggadah: With Translation and Commentary
Marc D. Angel / Paperback / 1988

button Uncle Eli's Special for Kids Most Fun Ever, Under the Table Passover Haggadah
Eliezer Segal, Bonnie Gordon-Lucas (Illustrator) / Paperback / 1999

button The Women's Haggadah
Naomi Nimrod(Contributor), E. M. Broner / Paperback / 1994


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MUSIC

Mostly Matzah

Fran Avni
The internationally known album of charming, original Passover songs for young people. Highly acclaimed by educators and parents. Marvelously creative and engaging for the entire family. Rich with sounds and rhythms, song and story.

The Journey Continues
Debbie Friedman
This outstanding new recording of 24 beautifully arranged Hebrew and English songs parallels the Ma'yan Passover haggadah of the same name. Lyrics and translations included.

A Singing Seder
Cindy Paley

A delightful mix of traditional and contemporary songs for Passover. Includes the lyrics in transliteration making it perfect for children (and grownups) to learn the Seder songs.

A Different Night
Voice of the Turtle

Voice of the Turtle specializes in presenting Jewish music of medieval times and ancient Middle Eastern traditions. Includes ballads and 23 versions of Chad Gadya in Aramaic, Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, Hebrew, Italian, Judeo-Provencal and Judeo-Arabic.

For many other wonderful Jewish music recordings, please go to JewishMusic.com. It's a little bit of a pain to search, but well worth it. Great selection!


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ADULT BOOKS

Bread on the Seder PlateLike Bread on the Seder Plate; Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition
by Rebecca Alpert / Paperback / 1998

Keeping Passover: Everything You Need to Know to Bring the Ancient Tradition to Life and Create Your Own Passover Celebration
Ira Steingroot / Harper San Francisco / 1995

 


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VIDEO
Passover at bubbe'sPassover at Bubbe's (1990)

Rugrats - A Rugrats Passover (1995)

Shalom Sesame 10 - Passover

Surpise: Shari Lewis' Passover

 


CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Dear ElijahDear Elijah
Miriam Bat-Ami
Reading level: Ages 9-12 / Hardcover / 1995
Rebecca's father is in the hospital after suffering a heart attack, and her Orthodox Jewish family must prepare for Passover without him. Afraid for her father, and unable to share her feelings with friends or family, twelve-year-old Rebecca writes to Elijah -- the prophet nvited induring the Passover Seder -- and confides her hopes and fears.

The Passover Journey: A Seder Companion
Barbara Diamond Goldin, Neil Waldman (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 4-8 / Paperback / 1997

The Matzah Ball Fairy
Carla Heymsfeld, Vlad Guzner (Illustrator), Vlad Guznar (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 4-8 / Hardcover / 1996

When Frieda Pinsky uses some magic powder to help make the matzah balls for her Passover seder light and fluffy, it works too well.

Miriam's CupMiriam's Cup: A Passover Story
by Fran Manushkin, Bob Dacey (Illustrator) / Reading level: Ages 4-8 / Hardcover / 1998

This is the story of the prophet Miriam, who kept the Israelites alive in the desert with water from her miraculous well. The beloved heroine's story has inspired a new Passover ritual: a cup filled with water that is placed on the Seder table. Wonderful ritual and a must-have book.

Matzo Ball Moon
by Leslea Newman, Elaine Greenstein (Illustrator) / Reading level: Ages 4-8 / Hardcover / 1998

Matzo Ball Moon is a cheerful family story of Passover preparations, a warm grandmother-granddaughter friendship, the mysterious disappearance of Bubbe's famous matzo balls, and the wonderful things that can happen under a matzo ball moon.

Matzah Ball: A Passover Story
Mindy Avra Portnoy, Katherine Janus Kahn / Paperback / 1994

One Little Goat : Had Gadya
by Betsy Platkin Teutsch (Illustrator) / Hardcover / 1990

Let My Babies Go!: A Passover Story
Sarah Willson, Barry Goldberg (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 4-8 / Paperback / 1998

 

 

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