I have a whole stack of DIY (Do It Yourself) Haggadahs at home. This week, I realized that so few of them are actually available online. So, I put out a call to folks a few days ago to share resources, for those who’d be willing to have their materials online, and did a little digging around online. As a disclaimer, I haven’t read all of them in full, and this list is in no way complete. Some didn’t have their haggadahs available electronically. Others don’t “DIY” a whole haggadah — they purchase haggadahs or use a family’s traditional haggadah with supplements, so I have an insert/supplement section as well.
This is just a taste of what I know are hundreds more haggadahs and supplements pieced together — mostly DIY haggadahs/zines — microcosms of beautiful, radical, ritual, traditional, multi-dimensional and multi-layered Jewish life. So please don’t hesitate to add yours to the mix. If it’s online, add a link. If you need it uploaded, you know how to reach me.
Hag Pesach everyone — may we all be moved out of the narrow places inside of us, and around us, so that next year we may all be closer to justice & liberation!
HAGGADAHS (listed alphabetically by name)
After Exodus: Living the Lessons of Passover by Jews Against the Occupation
The Anonymous Hagaddah – A Synthesis of the Passover Ritual and Liturgy with the Twelve Steps of Recovery by JACS, Jewish Alcoholics, Chemically Dependent Persons, and Significant Others.
GLBT Passover Haggadah by JQ International
Haggadah for Pesach by the Velveteen Rabbi
Hyper-Secular, No-God, No-Haggadah Seder by Dena Marger & Daniel Lang/Levitsky
In Search of Freedom: Exploring Common Ground Passover Haggadah by the Milwaukee Area Jewish Committee’s African-American-Jewish Task Force
Love & Justice in Times of War Haggadah by Micah Bizant & Dara Silverman
New Freedom Seder for the Earth
by the Shalom Center
Also check out the Original 1969 Freedom Seder text online!
On the Road to Freedom Haggadah remixed by Joseph Gindi and Emilia Diament from a number of the other haggadahs listed here.
The Seder: Beth Adam Haggadah (thanks to twitter!)
INSERTS & SUPPLEMENTS: (Listed Alphabetically by Organization)
Jewish Funds for Justice: Escape from the New Mitzrayim
Jewish Social Justice Network: Passover Social Justice Resources
Jewish Voice for Peace: Mah Nishtana. Questioning at the Seder Table.
Kulanu: Four Questions with a translation into Ladino
Progressive Jewish Alliance: Be the first into the Red Sea
Rabbis for Human Rights:
Passover and Human Rights Interfaith Perspectives
Passover, Gaza and Human Rights
Who sits with Us at the Pesach Table
Previous Posts:
Passover Galore…social justice haggadot and supplement round up
Ayelet Cohen for Pesach: May We Remember and Supplements Galore
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Maya Norton
April 9th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
This is so excellent, Cole (although wish I could have seen it a few days ago). Next year.
Hag Sameach,
~ Maya
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Cole
April 9th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Next year I’ll have even more for you
Chag Sameach to you as well!
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