Tag #152983 - Interview #78408 (Lidia Korotina)

Mamma always loved the Jewish New Year celebrations, and fasting on Yom Kippur was mandatory for her, too. Recently, I too have begun fasting.  We celebrated Purim and Pesach. But I don’t remember celebrating other holidays. For Pesach, we cleaned up our home and put beautiful kosher dishes on the table. Mamma called them Easter dishes. There was everything that should be on the table at Pesach – matso, bitter herbs, eggs, chicken. Besides, mamma cooked a lot of other delicious things.  There was no bread in the house during Pesach. Our friends and relatives came to us, and we all enjoyed ourselves.  It was a holiday, but we didn’t have strict rules for the celebration.  We had plenty of food at home. In summer we had an opportunity to go on vacation. However, it all seemed an ordinary thing at that time. We didn’t have any luxuries, no dacha or car, and we didn’t travel, although I have started travelling in recent years.