


Passover celebrations with extended family, but not every year. Also called the "Festival of Ma zzot" the "Festival of Spring" Pesa h. There were occasionally some A seven-day festival to commemorate the Exodus from Egypt (eight days outside Israel) beginning on the 15 th day of the Hebrew month of Nissan. Her mother, Helen Block Lewis (1913-1987), was a psychologist and psychoanalyst who taught at Yale University and was active in progressive political causes. He was noted for writing several social histories of Ptolemaic and Roman history that made scholarly research accessible to the non-specialist. Her father, Naphtali Lewis (1911-2015), was a Professor of Classics at the City University of New York. Both her parents were the American-born children of Eastern European Jewish immigrants. Born in 1942 in New York City, Judith Lewis was the oldest of two children.
