Passover: Festival of Unleavened Bread

Passover, in Judaism, holiday commemorating the Hebrews’ liberation from slavery in Egypt and the “passing over” of the forces of destruction, or the sparing of the firstborn of the Israelites, when the Lord “smote the land of Egypt” on the eve of the Exodus. Passover begins with the 15th and ends with the 21st (or, outside of Israel and among Reform Jews, the 22nd) day of the month of Nisan (March or April). On these seven (or eight) days, all leaven, whether in bread or other mixture, is prohibited, and only unleavened bread, called matzo, may be eaten. The matzo symbolizes both the Hebrews’ suffering while in bondage and the haste with which they left Egypt in the course of the Exodus. Passover is also sometimes called the Festival of Unleavened Bread. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Passover.


Updated April 14, 2025
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An invitation to Passover
Olitzky, Kerry M.
Paper Book
When Hannah's extended family isn't able to join her for their traditional Passover seder, she invites her diverse group of friends to experience the holiday with her. From Ha-joon's Korean kimchi, to Monique's hymn lyrics, each friend brings a bit of their own culture to the celebration. And with...
Matzah day!
Offsay, Charlotte
Paper Book
It's Matzah Day! Celebrate with this joyful rhyming story! Mom and Dad and baby, too, We love matzah! So will you! In this fun rhyming story, a family celebrates Passover with lots of matzah-with lox, as stuffing, matzah pizza, and matzah candy....
The Passover mouse
Wieder, Joy Nelkin
Paper Book
In this charming and witty Passover story about kindness, community, tradition, and forgiveness, a little mouse disrupts a town's preparations for the holiday when it steals a piece of leavened bread--or chometz--just as all the houses have been swept clean in time for the holiday.<...
Peek-a-boo passover
Mayer, Pamela
Paper Book
"Peek-a-boo!" says a child on each page of this Passover board book, as little readers get a glimpse of all the items that appear on the Passover seder table. Turn the page to find out what each item is!
Welcoming Elijah : a Passover tale with a tail
Newman, Lesléa
Paper Book
Winner of the Sydney Taylor Book Award and the National Jewish Book Award, Welcoming Elijah by celebrated author Leslea Newman, unites a young boy and a stray kitten in a warm, lyrical story about Passover, family, and friendship. Inside, a boy and his family sit around...
Passover around the world
Lehman-Wilzig, Tami
Paper Book
Introduces children to the many different ways of celebrating Passover around the world, including customs that can be adopted for use in the child's own family seder.
The mysterious missing matzoh
Katz, Alan
Paper Book
What happens when you hide the afikomen too well The Mysterious Missing Matzoh is a hilariously original, utterly heartwarming take on a beloved Passover tradition. It's that time in the Passover Seder when it's Grandpa Murray's job to break the matzoh and hide the afikomen...
Meet the Matzah : a passover story
Silberberg, Alan
Paper Book
From the creator of Meet the Latkes comes the zaniest retelling of the Passover story starring an earnest matzah and his bready friends! What makes this Passover different from all other Passovers? Meet Alfie Koman. He's a matzah who really likes to...
A mystical Haggadah : Passover meditations, teachings, and tales
Klein, Eliahu.
Paper Book
In a generation that has seen an explosion in popularity of books about mystical and meditative traditions, very little has been published about the rich and fascinating mystical traditions of the Jewish holy days. Passover, the first religious holiday of the Jewish people, particularly rewards a re...
For this we left Egypt? : a Passover Haggadah for Jews and those who love them
Barry, Dave
Paper Book
The book you hold before you is no ordinary Haggadah. If you've ever suffered through a Seder, you're well aware of the fact that the entire evening can last as long as the exodus from Egypt itself. There are countless stories, dozens of blessings, and far too many handwashings while the meal...
Pesach for the rest of us : making the Passover seder your own
Piercy, Marge.
Paper Book
Every year, poet and novelist Marge Piercy creates her own Passover seder with a group of family and friends. Babies have been born and grown up, friends have moved or divorced, but the principals continue to gather in her rustic Cape Cod home to participate in a seder that Piercy takes joy in...
Joan Nathan's Jewish holiday cookbook : revised and updated on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of the Jewish holiday kitchen
Nathan, Joan
Paper Book
Jewish holidays are defined by food. Yet Jewish cooking is always changing, encompassing the flavors of the world, embracing local culinary traditions of every place in which Jews have lived and adapting them to Jewish observance. This collection, the culmination of Joan Nathan’s decades of...
My life in recipes : food, family, and memories
Nathan, Joan
Paper Book
A NYT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE BEST BOOK ABOUT FOOD OF THE YEAR * A SAVEUR BEST COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR A new cookbook from the best-selling and award-winning author that uses recipes to look back at her life and family history--and at her personal journey...
Tyrannosaurus tsuris : a Passover story
Tarcov, Susan
Paper Book
All the dinosaurs are getting ready for Passover, but no one will come to Tyrannosaurus Rex's seder because they think he will eat them. This gives him terrible tsuris, the Yiddish word for "worry." "You think you have tsuris?" Stegosaurus asks. "I can't find parsley for my seder." "And I can't...
Let's eat : Jewish food and faith
Stein, Lori
Paper Book
The food that Jewish people eat is part of our connection to our faith, culture, and history. Not only is Jewish food comforting and delicious, it's also a link to every facet of Judaism. By learning about and cooking traditional Jewish dishes, we can understand fundamentals such as kashrut,...
On Her Own
Lapid, Lihi/ Silverston, Sondra (TRN)
Paper Book
A moving, page-turning story of two families in crisis that melds the clock-ticking tension of Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me with the "issue-driven" gravity of Jennifer Haigh's Mercy Street. Watching her Russian immigrant mother, Irina, struggle to put food on the...
Passover : festival of freedom
Polak, Monique
Paper Book
During Passover, Jews are reminded of how, more than three thousand years ago, their ancestors emerged from slavery to become free men and women. Bestselling author Monique Polak explores her own Jewish roots as she tells the Passover story, which reminds us that the freedom to be who we...
Passover family
Polak, Monique
Paper Book
Teach babies and toddlers about this important Jewish festival by exploring what happens during the Passover seder with this delightful photographic board book. This primer features family and friends coming together to share a meal, tell stories and sing songs, and encourages little ones...
A sweet year : Jewish celebrations and festive recipes for kids and their families
Nathan, Joan
Paper Book
A LA TIMES BEST COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR * A STRATEGIST BEST COOKBOOK TO GIFT THIS YEAR The "queen of American Jewish cooking" (Houston Chronicle) revises her children's classic for a new generation. In Jewish tradition, holidays are a time for family and...
Benjy's messy room
Goldin, Barbara Diamond
Paper Book
"Chametz hunt­ing meets sib­ling bond­ing in this cute and infor­ma­tive read." --Jewish Book Council "The book provides a useful starting point for thinking about how to approach a problem that seems overwhelming." --Association of Jewish Libraries ...
Miriam's secret
Waldman, Debby
Paper Book
In 1930 nine-year-old Miriam travels by train from Brooklyn to her grandparents' farm in upstate New York. Her grandparents are kind, generous people, but they aren't exactly ideal playmates for a lonely girl. When Miriam is not doing homework in the kitchen with Bubby or helping prepare...
Baby's first Passover
Feldman, Elchonon
Paper Book
Celebrate Passover with this delightful baby board book teaching little ones all about this popular Jewish festival. Bold, brightly colored pictures, and short and snappy text is the perfect way to discover Passover together in this delightful book! From assembling the seder...
The Passover guest
Kusel, Susan
Paper Book
Sydney Taylor Award Winner   A girl's kindness to a mysterious magician leads to a Passover miracle. Beautifully illustrated and deftly told, this story full of hope, tradition-- and just a touch of magic-- is a new Passover classic in the making.
The four questions
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon
Paper Book
Why is this night different from all other nights? Every year when families gather for the Passover holiday, the youngest child poses that question as part of the poetic Four Questions near the start of the Seder. The answers are no less than the story of a people bound in slavery,...
Afikomen
Cohen, Tziporah
Paper Book
Honor, Sydney Taylor Book Award In this wordless time-travel adventure, three children at a Passover seder visit ancient Egypt to help baby Moses find his way safely to Pharaoh's daughter. When a family settles at the table for Passover, their dog nabs the afikomen bag (containing...
Passover!
Schotter, Roni.
Paper Book
Join little Moe and his family as they celebrate Passover. They clean the house, prepare the Seder dinner, hunt for the hidden matzoh, and read the story of Passover together. National Jewish Book award winning author Roni Schotters sweet, simple text is paired with Erin Eitter Konos warm and...
Sammy Spider's first Passover
Rouss, Sylvia A.
Paper Book
When Sammy Spider's web gets swept away during the Shapiro family'sPassover cleaning, his mother decides spring is a perfect time to make a newweb. As Sammy learns to spin, he gets involved in the Passover seder and plays an important role in the success of the holiday meal. "An...

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