Every­body has a sto­ry, espe­cial­ly a fam­i­ly sto­ry. At a senior cen­ter in Oma­ha, Nan­cy Rips began col­lect­ing seder sto­ries — per­son­al, fun­ny, instruc­tive, sig­nif­i­cant, embar­rass­ing. Over the years her col­lec­tion grew, and in Seder Sto­ries she records the child­hood mem­o­ries of 101 Jews, famil­iar fig­ures, friends, and the well-known anony­mous. Grouped in chap­ters that speak to var­i­ous aspects of the seder, the sto­ries are enter­tain­ing in their own right; judi­cious­ly dropped into a seder, a sprin­kling can pro­vide an allow­able leav­en of laugh­ter or poignan­cy. A glos­sary pro­vides trans­la­tions of Yid­dish and Hebrew words and phrases.