The Third Seder

Overview

A new and powerful observance to mark the anniversary of the Holocaust

Drawing from contemporary and traditional texts and music, this is a moving and uplifting guide to commemorating Yom Hashoah—Holocaust Remembrance Day. Enabling the growing audience of individuals, families, schools, and community groups to create new symbols in order to cope, understand, and remember those who were lost, this study includes a CD featuring songs by various artists in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish, providing a musical guide to the lyrics listed in the book itself. Illustrating the significance behind each part of the ritual, this consideration illuminates the rising worldwide movement among Jewish, Christian, interfaith, and secular groups to honor this meaningful occasion.

Author Biography

Irene Lilienheim Angelico is the writer, producer, and director of several documentaries, including Between the Solitudes; Black Coffee; Canadaville, USA; The Cola Conquest; Dark Lullabies; Inside the Great Magazines; Unbreakable Minds; and Vendetta Song. She is the coeditor of The Aftermath: A Survivor's Odyssey Through War-Torn Europe, a manuscript written by her father, Henry Lilienheim, and endorsed by Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Elie Wiesel and the Dalai Lama. Yehudi Lindeman is a child survivor of the Holocaust who was separated from his family and spent more than two years in hiding in rural Holland. He is a retired professor of English at McGill University and the founder and former director of Living Testimonies, the Holocaust Video Archive at McGill. He is a cofounder of the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and the author of Shards of Memory: Narratives of Holocaust Survival. They both live in Montreal, Quebec.