Peysakh

 

Arthur Szyk, Haggadah (1936) and Passover Seder 

 

Vocabulary

• What is on the Seder table?  פּסח – וואָס איז אויפֿן טיש   (beginners)

• Peysakh tastes  זיס ביטער זויער זאַלציק  (beginners)

• Fill in the blanks   פּסח  (intermediate)

Had Gadya by El Lissitzky

Book (advanced)

Read El Lissitzky’s wonderful illustrated version of the song Had Gadya.

Activities (advanced)

• Peysakh around the world    

This can be played as a scavenger hunt.  The pictures are posted on the wall around the room.  The purpose of the game is to match the pictures and their captions.     פּסח אַרום דער וועלט     Photographs

• Peysakh? Ha-ha-ha      פּסח? כאַכאַכאַ   –    Describe funny Passover images

Songs

• The four questions     די פֿיר קשיות             
• Four Yiddish seder songs  –  Shvimt dos kestl (The little basket floats)  –  Dayenu  –   In dem land fun piramidn (by the poet Dovid Edelshtadt)  –  Khad Gadyo (by Mikhl Gelbart).

Yiddish text:     פסח לידער

Some of these songs can be heard on the CDs Songs My Bubbe Should Have Taught Me (Volume one: Passover)   and Vessel of Song: The Music of Mikhl Gelbart  by the Lori Cahan-Simon Ensemble.

Students at the Kinneret Day School sing these 4 songs every year at their school’s model seder.  Watch some of these students sing Oyfn Nil and Khad Gadyo.

• Mu asapru, mu adabru (Who will tell, who will say), the Yiddish equivalent of the Seder song “Echad mi yodea” (Who knows one).  Watch Yiddish-speaking children, led by Binyumen Schaechter, act out this song on the DVD Pripetshik Sings Yiddish (dir. Joshua Waletzky).   מה אַספּרה, מה אַדברה  (advanced)