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Dara Horn on Her New Graphic Novel

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JL;DR SUMMARY Dara Horn discusses her new graphic novel for middle-grade readers, "One Little Goat," which explores themes of memory and Jewish tradition through a surreal adventure across seder tables spanning Jewish history. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Jewish HistoryPassoverTraditionCultural IdentityDara HornSederMemoryChildren's LiteratureGraphic NovelIllustration

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Israel
"Later this week, Jewish families all over the world will sit down at their seder table and, guided by the text of the Haggadah, recapitulate in a highly ornate and ritualized way the Israelite redemption from oppression in Egypt."
Bnei Brak, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"We also go of course to the seder in B'nai Brak this is the seder that's mentioned in the traditional Haggadah right it's mentioned in the Haggadah where these are you know the seder of Rabbi Akiva and four of his colleagues and it says you know they sat up all night talking about the exodus from E"

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