The Jewish Holidays
Subtitle: A Guide and Commentary
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: March 1986
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780060912253
Subjects: Holidays - Jewish; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Judaism; Religion
First sentence: Passover (Pesah), which celebrates the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, begins on the fifteenth of the month of Nisan and continues for seven days, through Nisan 21, though many Diaspora communities celebrate it for eight days (see discussion of the second day of festivals in Appendixes 1 and 2).