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During the first weeks of the coronavirus pandemic last year, when organizing events over Zoom was still a novelty, Rabbi Avram Mlotek and “Golden Land Concerts and Connections” president Moishe Rosenfeld put together a Third Seder online in an effort to bring together Yiddish aficionados unable to otherwise attend any seder at all.
The Third Seder was a popular tradition in the afternoon Yiddish schools and Yiddishist organizations from the 1920s to the 1990s, especially in New York. The Workers Circle ran a massive Third Seder at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Manhattan for decades and many songs and readings from that program are still used at family Seders and by several Yiddishist organizations.