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Summary: A seder treat for "the rest of us"
Review: I go through such a dither every Passover cutting and pasting appropriate passages from the standard-issue Haggadahs. Now Martha Shelley has done the job for me. Her poetic Haggadah steeped in Jewish, humanist, and feminist traditions is just what I've longed for. It's totally relevant and totally charming, so the kids won't fall asleep and the adults won't get bored before we get to the dinner!
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Summary: Celebrates freedom
Review: I'm wondering if the previous reviewer was even reading the same book. There's nothing man-hating about it! I loved it. It's a haggadah that celebrates men, women, EVERYBODY resisting the Pharaoh, in whatever guise, and coming up out of Egypt, wherever that may be at the moment. Passionate, feminist, liberating, yes! Man-hating? no.
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Summary: A powerful, passionate book
Review: Imagine a beautiful, powerful, universally relevant haggadah rooted in tradition--a socially conscious, joyfully feminist, poetic hagaddah firmly based in the original Hebrew texts. This is that book.Passover is one of the most important Jewish holidays. The seder--something like a highly ritualized Thanksgiving gathering and dinner--is the celebration and retelling of the story of the exodus from Egypt. The hagaddah is the little book the participants use to follow through the steps of the seder. The seder where this hagaddah is used will keep the attention of all the participants, engaging their conscience and their emotions. I highly recommend it for anyone interested in the seder's poetry, meaning, and relevance to our lives here and now.
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Summary: A haggadah to spice up your seder
Review: This haggadah blends feminism with a kind of liberation theology based in Judaism. Author Martha Shelley, longtime feminist activist and poet, writes not just for Jews across the theological spectrum but for non-Jews as well, drawing on the struggles of many nations to tell the Exodus tale. The book has a strong social action agenda and offers up some lofty poetry playing on themes of nature. -- from The Reporter, publication of Women's American ORT
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Summary: A haggadah for our time
Review: This is the perfect haggadah for our seder--a truly inspired work! The poetry is clear and easy to read and the prose is poetic. _Haggadah_ reminds us of our ancestors' struggles for liberation and calls on us to resist our contemporary pharaohs.
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Summary: Man-Hating Screed
Review: What I had hoped for when I ordered this was a Hagaddah that was egalitarian and that celebrated the value of women and their contributions as WELL as those of men. What I had not expected was a text to be used to vent spleen against men. One passage reads something like this: "While the Jews were in bondage in Egypt for 400 years, women have been in bondage for 4000 years!"Various passages decry everything from female circumcision to wifebeating, with the finger steadily pointed at male terrorists/perpetrators. While no one can fault the legitimacy of these complaints against some, even MANY men, unless this is what Passover is about for you, this is NOT your Hagaddah.And unless you feel male guilt is universal, and are willing to turn the Passover table into a time to vent these accusations, and to make them, by implication, even against the men in your life whom you've invited to sit at your table, this is not your Hagaddah. This is an angry book by those who, evidently, cannot see men as lovers or friends or good companions,or, in general, as potentially benign. To use it at my own seder would have been a disservice to the wonderfully kind, smart,funny man who loves me, stands with me, and is my best friend.
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