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I miss those secular Jews who led traditional seders

JL;DR SUMMARY Rukhl Schaechter reflects on the paradox of secular Jews leading traditional seders with religious fervor, exemplified by her Uncle Yoyne and others of his generation. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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FamilySecular JudaismJewish EducationPassoverJewish IdentityTraditionYiddish CultureCultural HeritageSederGenerational Transmission

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Siret, Bistriţa-Năsăud, Romania
"His family lived in Siret (pronounced Seret in Yiddish), in the Bukovina region of Romania, and he apparently remembered the way it was sung by his father, Khayim, who prayed both with the Vizhnits Hasidim and with the Sadegerer."

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