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April 5, 2023

The 1904 Version of the Seder Service Credited with Reviving Passover Observance in the U.S.

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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