The Pesach Diaries: A Hilarious Journey Through Passover Cleaning, Chaos, and Family Survival

While I enjoyed this book, it is written for a niche audience, for Jewish people who celebrate Pesach (Passover) for the full eight days, not just the first two. While I understood all the “foreign” words, when I tried using my Kindle to look them up with either Wikipedia or Dictionary, almost every time, I came up blank. If the words had been in Finnish or Icelandic, I might have had better luck, but Kindle doesn’t provide translations from Hebrew or Yiddish. Including a glossary might expand this diary to a wider audience.

The story is about Byron Levine, his wife and children, celebrating Pesach, and all its ups and downs – eating traditional foods, getting sick of matzoh, the children longing for pizza, finding ways to show more entertain all the children for the week and discovering that all the ideas have been thought of by all the other Jewish families from shul (synagogue).

I loved the cartoon at the end of a man staring at both a loaf of bread and the last board of matzoh. show less