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LEFT: Chana (Anna) Schaidman did all
the work for seders, while her daughter
Mintzi Schramm was a “princess” and did
nothing. For obvious reasons, Schramm
said Passover was her favorite holiday.

Rabbi Sidney Vineburg
seder kitchen experience.
and some of his grand-
“My mom used to make
children and great-grand-
sponge cakes, which
children. Donald’s mother,
called for 10-12 eggs each,”
Mildred Vineburg, grew
Glogower says. “In those
up in a Manhattan house-
days, we would have our
hold without much Jewish
eggs and milk delivered from
ritual. In fact, Mildred
Alpenrose Dairy in Portland.
Nehama Glogower remembered that her whole
Mom asked me to leave a
synagogue experience hap-
note for the milkman, con-
pened on Yom Kippur, when
firming that he leave her
her mother would take her
order of 12 dozen eggs.
to the sidewalk outside the
“I thought that was crazy
famous Temple Emanu-
and left a note confirming
El. They would mingle with
her order of 12 eggs. Mom
the crowd and perhaps hear
practically had a heart
some of the service or the
attack when she opened
sermon.
the milk box and found one
From childhood, Mildred
dozen eggs. Lesson learned.” Sharon Krasner
worked in her mother’s dry
Sharon Krasner of Oak
goods store; she did not get
Park recalls that her grand-
much formal Jewish educa-
mother, like Miriam Greene’s
tion nor much experience
grandmother and Mintzi
learning how to cook.
Schramm’s mother, kept
When Mildred married,
strict ownership of the cook-
she joined her husband’s
ing.
family, which had somewhat
“Who prepared the seder
more active Jewish prac-
feast? Definitely, my bub-
Micki Grossman
tices. She felt overwhelmed
bie,” she says. “We were
by the responsibility of
allowed to do the charo-
putting together a meal for
set. Otherwise, we weren’t
her new family’s seder. The
allowed in the kitchen.”
maid, Marie Johnson, told
Micki Grossman of
the young bride not to
Farmington Hills has a simi-
worry, that she, though
lar memory from her child-
an African American and
hood in Detroit.
devout Catholic, would have
“My mother did all the
the food for the seder totally
cooking. She chopped the
Donald Vineburg
under control. And, indeed,
fish for gefilte fish in a
for the next 40 years or so,
wooden bowl. She grated
Marie Johnson took care of provid-
horseradish. I remember going to
ing the seder feast for the Vineburg
Gruny’s grocery store for a pint jar
family.
of beet russel [ fermented beets],
The seder developed more ele-
which she used to make the grated
ments of a traditional seder after
horseradish less strong and red. I
one of Donald Vineburg’s brothers
make gefilte fish and use the food
married his Aunt Charlotte. Donald
processor, and I buy ready-made
recalls “it was not until Aunt Char-
horseradish.”
Retired principal Donald Vineburg lotte married into the family that I
discovered there was anything
has just moved from Green Bay,
after the meal at a seder.” •
Wis., to Michigan, home of his son

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