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Time Travel, Missing Matzah and ‘One Little Goat’

JL;DR SUMMARY Dara Horn's graphic novel "One Little Goat," targeted for readers aged 8 and up, intertwines elements of magic and Jewish tradition within a Passover narrative. 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 HistoryJewish TraditionPassoverJewish IdentityWarsaw Ghetto UprisingDara HornAfikomenGraphic NovelChad GadyaMedieval Commentary

Places mentioned

Israel
"He must search for it through more than 3,000 years of past seders in countries from Israel to Ethiopia to Poland to finally bring a close to his own familys never-ending meal, where the food has been regenerating for six months."
Ethiopia
"He must search for it through more than 3,000 years of past seders in countries from Israel to Ethiopia to Poland to finally bring a close to his own familys never-ending meal, where the food has been regenerating for six months."
Poland
"He must search for it through more than 3,000 years of past seders in countries from Israel to Ethiopia to Poland to finally bring a close to his own familys never-ending meal, where the food has been regenerating for six months."
Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"One of the times visited by the boy is the eve of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which began on a seder night."

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