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Dara Horn’s gonzo, time-traveling children’s Passover book wants people to love living Jews

JL;DR SUMMARY Dara Horn's latest work, "One Little Goat: A Passover Catastrophe," is a middle-grade graphic novel that creatively combines history and Jewish tradition, aiming to build appreciation for the lived experiences of Jews. 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 CultureJewish HistoryPassoverHolocaust EducationDara HornTime TravelCommemorationJewish MemoryGraphic Novel

Places mentioned

New Jersey, United States
"Her 2006 debut, A World to Come, toggles between present-day New Jersey and 1920s Russia."
Jerusalem, Israel
"Her 2018 novel Eternal Life, meanwhile, is about an immortal woman, born in Jerusalem, who experiences countless lives over 2,000 years."
Egypt
"a book about the collapse of time, expressed in its injunction that in every generation a person is obligated to see themselves as if they left Egypt."
Israel
"held in the Land of Israel after the destruction of the Second Temple."
Short Hills, New Jersey, United States
"The story was inspired by two seders that Horn, who was raised and still lives in Short Hills, New Jersey, grew up attending."
Massachusetts, United States
"An alumna of Harvard, she gave an interview to a Congressional committee as a member of Harvards Antisemitism Advisory Group, formed in the wake of Hamas Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel."
Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"The second she describes as a large multigenerational gathering that included Holocaust survivors, including some who had participated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on Passover of 1943,"

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