And You Shall Tell Your Daughter

It was in a suffocating Soviet prison cell of all places – at a solitary Passover Seder table where salt served as bitter herbs and water served as wine – that Natan Sharansky grasped the meaning of freedom. “For me, the idea that a nation of slaves could gain freedom was not an ancient tale, but an eternal truth,” he recalls.

In a series of online conversations in honour of Passover, Rachel Sharansky Danziger will speak with her father, Natan Sharansky, about their family history, the collective memory of the Jewish people, the Haggadah’s core ideas, and the meeting points between the distant and recent past and present-day challenges.