New American Haggadah, 9780316069878
Paperback
Experience Passover’s story anew: modern voices illuminate ancient traditions.

New American Haggadah

$71.72

  • Paperback

    160 pages

  • Release Date

    4 March 2014

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Summary

A Modern Passover: The New American Haggadah

Read each year around the seder table, the Haggadah recounts through prayer, song, and ritual the extraordinary story of Exodus, when Moses led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt to wander the desert for forty years before reaching the Promised Land.

Jonathan Safran Foer has orchestrated a new way of experiencing and understanding one of our oldest, most timeless, and sacred stories, with a new translation of the traditional t…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780316069878
ISBN-10:0316069876
Author:Jonathan Safran Foer, Nathan Englander
Publisher:Little, Brown & Company
Imprint:Little, Brown & Company
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:4 March 2014
Weight:540g
Dimensions:267mm x 198mm x 15mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“What makes this haggadah shine is the combination of commentary, design, and illustration.”– Financial Times

“The best book of modern religious thought in recent memory.”–The Millions“What makes this haggadah shine is the combination of commentary, design, and illustration.”–Financial TimesPraise for EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED:

“Not since…A Clockwork Orange has the English language been simultaneously mauled and energized with such brilliance and brio.”–Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review

About The Author

Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Eating Animals. His books have been translated into thirty-six languages. Everything Is Illuminated received a National Jewish Book Award and a Guardian First Book Award, and was made into a film by Liev Schreiber. Foer lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the novelist Nicole Krauss, and their children.

Nathan Englander is the author of the novel, The Ministry of Special Cases, the play, The Twenty-Seventh Man, and the story collections For the Relief of Unbearable Urges and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, which won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife Rachel Silver.

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