Passover Memories – An Oral History

Thank you to the following people who sent in their Pesach reminiscences of seder nights from their youth which range diverse Ashkenazic and Sephardic traditions from Jewish communities around the world. Learn about food, songs, and fond family memories from the festival of freedom.

• Batya from Poland

• Toby from Ohio

• Rachel from Romania

• Dov from Jerusalem

• Suzi from Bulgaria

• Yadidya

• Shirley and Paul from Cleveland

• Eitan from the Soviet Union

• Lauren from Canada

• Nili from Los Angeles

• Eitan from Israel

• Ellen from Pennsylvania

Israel Defense Force soldiers eating matza in the Sinai Peninsula during Passover. Credit Yaacov Saar, Israeli Government Press Office, 1975.

Yemenite Habani family celebrating Passover seder at their new home in Tel Aviv. Credit: Zoltan Klugar, GPO, 1946.

Passover lunch at the kibbutz dining hall in Grofit in the Negev. Credit: Moshe Pridan, GPO, 1964

Passover seder at the Maabarat David immigrant camp near Haifa. Credit: GPO, 1960.

Moshe Sharett (right) who later became Israeli Prime Minister, attending a public Passover seder in Jerusalem . Credit: Zoltan Klugar, GPO, 1935

Passover seder in a Tel Aviv kindergarten. Credit: Hugo Mendelson, GPO, 1949

Passover seder. Credit: Moshe Pridan, GPO, 1964