Traditionally, most if not all observant Ashkenazim refrain from eating corn and corn-products on Passover because of their traditional prohibition on eating kitniyot (legumes) for fear of eating Biblically-prohibited chametz (leavened products). Corn, or maize, is a New World crop that could only have been imported to Europe once this was feasible. What is the earliest source in the rabbinic literature to classify corn as kitniyot and is it universally accepted as such? (I believe I have noticed in recent years a package of "kosher for passover" sweets that suggests Rav Isaac Elhanan Specter, z"l, was lenient, but I am looking for more specific sources.)
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