Education about the Shoah Won’t Stop Anti-Semitism
Using dead Jews as symbols isn’t helping living ones.
April 5, 2023
The “haggadah in a new dress.”
Many American Jews today have distinct memories of using the Maxwell House Haggadah, which has remained in print since 1932, at family seders. Before that, writes Jenna Weissman Joselit, there was The Seder Service, “arranged”—as its cover states—by Mrs. Philip Cowen and first published in 1904.
Using dead Jews as symbols isn’t helping living ones.
Energy, technology, and security.
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A sense of belonging.
The “haggadah in a new dress.”
Many American Jews today have distinct memories of using the Maxwell House Haggadah, which has remained in print since 1932, at family seders. Before that, writes Jenna Weissman Joselit, there was The Seder Service, “arranged”—as its cover states—by Mrs. Philip Cowen and first published in 1904.
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