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Passover
The Seder
My Grandfather's Restaurant in Czernowitz
"Among the most
pleasant memories I keep, are the two first nights of Passover. The
restaurant was closed to the public, and a big table was set for the
Seder. We were normally sixteen to twenty people, many relatives and also
at times close friends of the family. Since I was the only child around,
and since none of my three uncles had any children, it was my duty to ask
the four questions, which made me, for a short period at least, the star
of the whole affair. The ritual was observed according to tradition, and
we sang late into the night. Of course, this being a kosher restaurant,
all dishes for the duration of the Passover holiday, were brought from
storage, and the cleaning took quite some time. I always wondered why my
grandparents didn't take a shortcut with this, but the law is the law, or
at least at that time I believed it to be true."
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--Gerhard Schreiber (photo, left, 1938)
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