BOOK ON PASSOVER GETS CHILDREN CHANTING ALONG.Byline: Knight-Ridder Tribune tribune, in ancient Rome, one of various officers. The history of the office of tribune is closely associated with the struggle of the plebs against the patrician class to achieve a more equitable position in the state. From c.508 B.C. News Wire With Passover beginning at sundown Wednesday, here's a book that's noteworthy: ``The Matzah That Papa Brought Home,'' by Fran Manushkin, illustrated by Ned Bittinger (Scholastic; $14.95), ages 2 to 7. Sweetly illustrated, ``The Matzah That Papa Brought Home'' tells the story of the Passover Seder The Passover Seder (Hebrew: סֵדֶר, seðɛɾ, "order", "arrangement") is a Jewish ritual feast held on the first night of the Jewish holiday of Passover (the 15th day of Hebrew month of Nisan). . It's told in a cumulative verse (of ``The House That Jack Built'' variety) so that young listeners could easily chant chant, general name for one-voiced, unaccompanied, liturgical music. Usually it refers to the liturgical melodies of the Byzantine, Russian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Anglican churches and is analogous to cantillation in Jewish liturgical music, Qur'anic chanting along as it is read. A glossary A term used by Microsoft Word and adopted by other word processors for the list of shorthand, keyboard macros created by a particular user. See glossaries in this publication and The Computer Glossary. in the back explains custom, ritual and terms to help initiate the reader who might not know much about the Passover holiday. |
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