(Judaism) a Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days from Nissan 15) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
1Today was Pesach, a joyful celebration, a day of liberation and redemption.
2But today we were also celebrating the first days of Pesach.
3The Seder meal is at the heart of the Jewish Passover or Pesach festival.
4Jacob Federn had chosen to go hungry rather than eat leavened bread during Pesach.
5Pesach's fiddle played the accompaniment to many other people's thoughts.
6This is used as a vinegar during Pesach and to make beet soup, Russian style.
7There hasn't even been an engagement since Belcovitch's eldest daughter betrothed herself to Pesach Weingott.
8As they did every year at Pesach, almost the whole of the Zurich family had gathered together.
9'I think I'll have a new pair of trousers made for Pesach.'
10About three weeks before Pesach take twenty pounds of beet-root, which must be thoroughly washed and scraped.
11The bridegroom, who halted a little on one leg, was a tall sallow man named Pesach Weingott.
12Pesach colored up and those in the secret laughed; the reference was to another of Pesach's early ideas.
13Half a block away, I saw Reyzl leaving the print shop and heading home for the Pesach feast.
14Pesach swallowed the concoction, murmuring "To life" afresh.
15Just as they remember that we slaughter little children, always before Pesach, and bake their blood in matzohs.
16Everything's upside down in our house at the moment, if only Pesach weren't coming up... My parents, you know.'