Probably the grandest seder table anywhere in the city is the one on view in the Passover department at Macy’s, Thirty-fourth street and Broadway, where the mere presentation of special Passover foods, the practice of former years, has been far surpassed.
The table is set with most of the silverware and plates bearing appropriate engravings and inscriptions in Hebrew. Outstanding in the decorations of the seder board is a beautiful silver candelabrum of undetermined venerability.
A pewter Passover plate on which the seder symbols are deposited is 200 years old. There is also an exhibit at Macy’s of a collection of illustrated modern and old haggadahs, telling the story of the deliverance of the children of Israel from ancient Egypt. Among them is a reproduction of the famous Darmstadt haggadah.
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