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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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PLAIN TALK
I J.D.C. SENDS PASSOVER PACKAGES TO ITALY
by AL SEGAL
Pharaoh to Hitler
OW in this Segal's house the
NOW
had come to its end
and Segal was feeling regretful
that it was over; for he had had
a very pleasant time of it.
Among others, he had had Mae-
ian Anderson at his table, in a
way of speaking. She was there
on a phonograph record, singing
"Go Down Moses."
When Segal had recited the
story of the liberation of the
children of Israel from the bond-
age of Pharoah, he had Marian
Anderson's voice come beautiful-
ly into the dining room from the
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phonograph . . . "Go down
Moses" . . . "Set my people
free" . . . Segal thought it was
singularly appropriate to have
Marian Anderson there.
Having Marian Anderson at
the Seder isn't strict Haggadah
regulation, but why should she
come along with the Haggadah?
She's the child of slaves, too,
and Segal felt almost like get-
ting up and saying, "Come right
in, Miss Anderson. You're one
of us and this is the celebration
of a freedom. This is one chap-
ter of a story that runs from
Moses to Lincoln, from Pharaon
to Hitler."
Well, that's the way it was
at Segal's Seder. In fact, he
doesn't fellow the Haggadah text
too closely, anyway. He has made
a kind of a drama of the story,
with one guest taking the part
of God, and another being Moses
and still another was that slave-
driver Pharaoh. By this device
the kida had been kept awake all
the way through.
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(Segal, in his own remote
youth, invariably fell asleep half
way in the Haggadah which, as
written, isn't a story to keep
kids alert to the end. He made
up his mind long ago that, if
he ever had anything to do with
it, he would make Seders lively.)
As for himself, Segal had sat
at the head of the table in full
panoply as Seder-master, on a
softly cushioned chair, in accord-
ance with the Seder custom. He
felt kingly on his soft throne. He
reclined there in the delectable
ease that tradition prescribes for
the householder in his role as
Seder-master.
Segal could exult in the poe-
try of this role. He squared his
shoulders; he raised his proud
head. Yes, he on this cushioned
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He chuckled on his throne.
Ho, ho, Segal, he said, get the
idea of this: You are man in
his essential grandeur. Think of
it, the grandeurs of tyrants \%ho
oppressed you became in time
the dust of the desert or a tar-
nished buckle in a museum of
antiques that people go to look
at sadly. You are the surviving
sovereign—you, this simple man
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These J.D.C. packages are a small part of the shipment of
25,000 special Passover packages which have been sent by the
Joint Distribution Committee to Italy. Each package contains
special Passover foods. J.D.C. is also providing bulk shipments
of matzoth and matzoh flour for Italy, France, Belgium, Holland,
Portugal, Switzerland and for refugees in the Soviet Union, Latin
America and the British West Indies,for which J.D.C. has ape
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throne, symbolized the sovereign
dignity of him, the common man
—the majesty of man as a hu-
man being.
Segal could lift his nose to a
proud elevation. He was the
child of serfs who had broken
their shackles by the might of
their own spirits and had over-
come pretenders who for the
moment were kings of emperors
or fuehrers.
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