The Leader's Guide to The Family Participation Haggadah "A Different Night"

David Dishon, Noam Zion

ISBN 10: 0966474015 / ISBN 13: 9780966474015

Published by Shalom Hartman Institute, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Leader's Guide to The Family Participation Haggadah "A Different Night"
• Publisher: Shalom Hartman Institute
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0966474015
• ISBN 13: 9780966474015
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 10 ounces

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Synopsis

The Leader's Guide is designed for seder leaders and for educators. For the seder leader there are practical suggestions for managing a participatory seder with children and adults of different ages. Shortcuts through the seder are provided as well as short background essays on Egyptian slavery (Nahum Sarna), Exodus and Revolution(Michael Walzer), Exodus metaphors for personal growth and a comparison of Moses and Herzl. Extra activities for the seder include a newspaper of the Exodus,roleplaying for the seder, a symposium of contemporary views on slavery and freedom and on the 4 children of the haggadah.Stories of exoduses in different generations include the Katmandu seder and the last seder in Ethiopia.

For educators there are background essays on Passover and family education(Rabbi David Hartman),Bibliodrama(Peter Pitzele),and a contemporary midrash on Moses( Julius Lester)as well as a guide to the perplexed Seder Leader.

About the Author

Noam Sachs Zion and David Dishon, educated in ivy league schools in the U.S., made aliyah to Israel in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War. They are on the Judaica faculty of the Shalom Hartman Institute for advanced Jewish studies in Jerusalem. Noam runs the curriculum development department specializing in Bible, midrash and art.He also contributed to the Bill Moyers book entitled Talking about Genesis(Doubleday) issued in conjunction with the Moyers Genesis series. David Dishon is the Judaic studies coordinated at the experimental Hartman high school, author of The Pluralistic Culture Of Rabbinic Debate(Schocken, Hebrew)and currently writing on rabbinic views of warfare.