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How a coffee company and a marketing maven brewed up a Passover tradition: A brief history of the Maxwell House Haggadah

  • Written by Kerri Steinberg, Department Chair of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Otis College of Art and Design
imageA Jewish family welcomes home their Navy man and gathers for a Passover Seder at their home in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1943.Minnesota Historical Society/CORBIS/Corbis Historical via Getty Images

For more than a millennium, the haggadah has been the centerpiece of the Jewish holiday of Passover. The book sets out the ceremony for the Seder meal, when...

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