Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?: The Four Questions Around the World - Hardcover

Kurshan, Ilana

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080524252X ISBN 13: 9780805242522

Verlag: Schocken Books, 2008

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A beautifully illustrated study of the Four Questions recited by the youngest participant at the beginning of the Passover seder discusses the meaning of the text in light of the Jewish people, translates the text into twenty-three different languages, and offers a look at the histories of the Jewish people in the countries where these languages are spoken. 20,000 first printing.

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Ilana Kurshan's essays and reviews have appeared in Lilith, The Forward, and the World Jewish Digest, among other publications. She works for a literary agency and studies Talmud in Jerusalem, where she lives.

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"For many Jewish children, the Ma Nishtana represents their first public performance... What is interesting, and characteristically Jewish, is that this first public performance is composed of questions. Questions have played a critical role in Jewish life from the very beginning. In the Bible, they are often directed to God... However, unlike demanding theological questions, the Four Questions of the Ma Nishtana are directed at one's parents. And the queries presuppose that the questioner intends to observe the holiday's rituals but simply wants a greater understanding of how and why to do so.

Jewish children have been reciting the Ma Nishtana for about a hundred generations and, as this book makes clear, in many different countries. But of one thing we can be sure: As long as children a chanting these questions, the Jewish people will go on."
--From the introduction by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Schocken Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 080524252X
• ISBN 13: 9780805242522
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 142
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