And You Shall Tell Your Daughter

It was precisely in a suffocating Soviet prison cell—at a solitary Passover Seder table where salt served as bitter herbs and water served as wine—that Natan Sharansky tasted the meaning of freedom. “For me, the idea that a nation of slaves could win 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, core ideas from the Haggadah, and the meeting points between the distant past and present-day challenges.