Celebrate Passover

Resource Information

The work Celebrate Passover represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Celebrate Passover

Statement of responsibility

Deborah Heiligman ; consultant, Shira Stern

Title variation

Celebrate Passover with matzah, maror, and memories

Creator

• Heiligman, Deborah

Subject

• Passover
• Passover -- Juvenile literature

Genre

• Juvenile literature

Language

eng

Summary

• The most celebrated holiday in the Jewish year, Passover commemorates the Exodus of Hebrew slaves from Egypt to freedom over 3,500 years ago. This colorful book explores the many forms that this weeklong celebration takes worldwide. Deborah Heiligman's rich text details the long lavish meals called seders, at which Exodus is recalled in ritual, prayer, song, and story. The historical significance of the food at these Passover feasts is also explained, and delicious recipes encourage readers to experience the full flavors of this internationally observed holiday. Rabbi Shira Stern's informative note provides parents and teachers with a historical and cultural background of the celebration of Passover
• The most celebrated holiday in the Jewish year, Passover commemorates the Exodus of Hebrew slaves from Egypt to freedom over 3,500 years ago

Member of

• Holidays around the world (National Geographic Society (U.S.))

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

296.4/37

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

Interest level

LG

LC call number

BM695.P3

LC item number

H374 2007

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Reading level

4.8

Series statement

Holidays around the world

Study program name

Accelerated Reader

Target audience

juvenile