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Escape Goat

JL;DR SUMMARY Jeremy Dauber explores "One Little Goat," a graphic novel by Dara Horn and Theo Ellsworth, that offers a unique twist on the Passover Seder. 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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IdentityJewish HistoryPassoverDara HornSederMemoryHaggadahGraphic NovelIllustrationTheo Ellsworth

Places mentioned

Harvard, Massachusetts, United States
"Horn, who has a doctorate in Jewish studies from Harvard, has always been able to suffuse her gifts as a novelist with a robust understanding of Jewish history."
Bnei Brak, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"Of course, the haggadah itself features an example of what sure seems to be a prior historical Sederthe discussion of Rabbi Akiva and friends of the Passover story that takes them all night in Bnei Brak."
Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"a subterranean one in the Warsaw Ghetto (in which, it turns out, our wise sons grandmother participated)."
Vienna, Austria
"Theres even a funny stop at the home of Sigmund Freuds mother."
Podolia, Cherkashchyna, Ukraine
"Or, as the Hasidic rabbi Nachman of Bratslav tells our time-traveling hero and the goat who brought him to eighteenth-century Podolia: The exodus from Egypt is still occurring in every human being, in every era, in every day."
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