Keeping Passover. Everything you need to know to bring the ancient tradition to life and to create your own Passover celebration
First edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 338; slight bend at corner of front cover, else fine in original pictorial wrappers. This copy inscribed to Allan and Cinda Kornblum: "To Allan and Cinda, with many fond memories of days in Iowa City. May your Pesachs always be zeesin (?). Love, Ira Steingroot 8/22/95."
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