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

Name: Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? The Four Questions Around the World
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ISBN: 9780805242522

ISBN-10: 080524252X

ISBN-13: 9780805242522

Edition: 2008

Authors: Ilana Kurshan, Joseph Telushkin

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This fascinating, informative, and beautifully illustrated books translates the Passover seder's Four Questions into twenty-three languages and provides capsule histories of the Jews in the countries where the languages are spoken. The recitation of the Four Questions at the beginning of the Passover seder by the youngest participant is one of the highlights of the evening and captures its very essence: to keep the memory of the Exodus of the Jews from Egyptian slavery alive in our minds, and to teach our children about their heritage and history. This unique volume covers a variety of languages of the Jewish Diaspora--from French to Farsi, from Latin to Ladino, from Amharic to Afrikaans,…

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List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/4/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 6.50" wide x 7.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594



"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