This volume examines the development of the non-liturgical parts of the Central Conference of
American Rabbis' Haggadot. Through an understanding of the changes in American Jewish
educational patterns and the CCAR's theology it explores how the CCAR Haggadah was changed
over time to address the needs of the constituency. While there have been many studies of the
Haggadah and its development over the course of Jewish history there has been no such study of
the non-liturgical parts of the Haggadah that reflect the needs of the audience it reaches. How
the CCAR the first and largest of American-born Judaisms addressed the changing needs of its
members through its literature for the Passover Seder reveals much about the development of the
movement. This in turn provides for the readers of this book an understanding of how American
Judaism has developed.
