Haggadah online

Marc Canter writes that for the last three years, he’s been composing and using an online haggadah for his family’s seder.

I vowed that no more trees were going to get cut down for Passover. You see I was raised a secular Jew and Passover was the only holiday we really celebrated… So despite the assimilation the rest of the year – Springtime was always the time to be Jewish. This meant that the first night we ate as an extended family and the second night we always attended our community seder – put on by the South Side School of Jewish studies in Chicago – our ‘religous
Since it was the 60’s – we added she with the he’s, talked about Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement along with the Warsaw Ghetto and in general celebrtated revolutionaries throughout the ages. The tradition of adding to and changing the seder was predominant.
So when it came to my own seder 20 years later – here’s what I realized: I helped give birth to the multimedia world and I was gonna put my Matzah where my mouth is……but when we assembled all these PCs around the table, guess what? Nobody could keep in sync with each other! So we had to devise a way for us all to stay together and enable remote access to the seder. This evolved into a truly on-line version……

Collaborative, hyperlinked media are contemporary instantiations of the traditional genres, which are based on conversation and the interpretation of referenced texts. Discussion groups and hyperlinks, in other words.

8 thoughts on “Haggadah online”

  1. Much as I love the hyperlinked world, Canter’s Seder sounds a tad cumbersome, to say the least!
    I guess our household, by Canter’s standards, is a center of springtime tree slaughter. My wife wrote a terrific, scaled-down Haggadah several years ago, and it has gained something of a reputatation. Even if someone else is hosting the Seder, Jill is requested to do the ritual and to bring plenty of printouts. People love it and take their printouts with them, so we have to make new ones every year.

  2. I would love a copy too. I’m trying to enhance our family’s seder and a much as I link the online one, we don’t have enough computers.

  3. I would love a copy too. I’m trying to enhance our family’s seder and a much as I link the online one, we don’t have enough computers.

  4. I am already preparing myself for this year’s Passover and would love to get a copy of your Haggadah…I didn’t notice any cost to the Haggadah…If there ISN’T any cost please forward a copy to me via my e-mail. Shalom.

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