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{{More footnotes needed|date=August 2022}}{{Update|date=August 2022}}{{Infobox holiday
| type          = ethnic, cultural, national, religious, judaism, patriotic
| holiday_name  = Seharane
| official_name = Seharane
| nickname      = Sayeran
| litcolor      = Kurdish colors: green, yellow, red; and blue for Israel and Judaism.
| significance  = The Seharane is a Kurdish Jewish festival, lasting a few days at the close of Pesach, that traditionally marked the end of winter and the coming of spring. Similar to Kurdish Newroz. It is a patriotic holiday reminding kurdish jews of their origin.
| celebrations  = family and other social gatherings, symbolic and feasting
| begins        = Tuesday, October 11
| ends          = Sunday, October 16
| date          = 
| duration      = 1 week
| frequency     = Annual
| relatedto     = [[Newroz]]
}}
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'''Seharane''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: סהרנה; [[Kurdish languages|Kurdish]]: ''Sayeran'') is a [[History of the Jews in Kurdistan|Kurdish Jewish]] festival, lasting a few days at the end of [[Passover|Pesach]], that traditionally marked the end of winter and the coming of spring (but has, in Israel been celebrated during [[Sukkot]]).  

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(contracted; show full)ne, and often in a circle, the dancers' feet weaving in and out.<ref name=":0" /> Solo singers and dancers would perform, and this was also a time when the community's poets and story-tellers would play a major part in the proceedings.<ref name=":0" /> Festivities would continue into the night, and possibly throughout the first night, until dawn and morning prayers, and the celebration went on for several days.<ref name=":0" />

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